Catching the Challenging Michigan Steelhead with Frank Willets

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week I have an interview with Frank Willets of Pere Marquette River Lodge on Michigan steelhead fishing. Frank grew up fishing in Michigan and knows the ins and outs of Great Lakes steelheading intimately. I know you’ll pick up some tips and this one is sure to be controversial because on the PM they use the chuck & duck method quite often and make no bones about it (they also swing flies in the traditional manner). We’ll also answer questions on why you seldom see hatches, how to play steelhead, pre-treatments for dry flies, “must fish” rivers for swinging flies, two-handed rods for the Florida surf, streamers in low water, what part of a deer hide to save, and other bizarre questions only a fly fisher could love.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing
0:15.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:21.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being
0:26.0	recorded on November 20, 2015.
0:30.3	Hey Tom, this is Joe from Virginia.
0:35.0	Calling, a couple things real quick.
0:38.0	I just want to know a couple weeks back, you asked about feedback on the podcast and no it's been discussed but real quick I probably was a
0:45.9	product of the learning how to fish through your podcast past co beers would be
0:50.8	selfish to say you know scrap the elementary stuff. But what about just
0:55.5	throwing in a one of those black diamond podcast you would do every once in a while? I know those
1:00.6	haven't, you haven't done one of those in a while.
1:02.8	I thought that may be appeased both parties by maybe throwing one of those in
1:06.8	some of the more advanced techniques.
1:10.1	And then two quick questions from fishing related.
1:12.4	One was on your leaders.
1:13.7	I purchased most of my terminal tackle
1:15.9	through Orver's past couple years.
1:17.2	And I've noticed that your leaders, some are clear
1:20.6	and then someone who has like a brownish tint to them and I thought maybe I had an old
1:25.8	pair but when I went to my local store here and open them up I noticed that one was tinted
1:30.0	as well and I didn't know if that was a manufacturing thing or if it's supposed to be
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