Charlie Robinton on California Trout Fishing

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

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This week my guest is Charlie Robinton [52:00], one of the experts from the Orvis Outfitter team (the people who answer your technical questions when you call, chat, or e-mail). Charlie is an expert in California fishing, and he gives us a grand tour of northern California rivers and what to expect when you plan a fishing trip there. Lots of solid information form a lifelong fly fisher and California native.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some great tips and questions from listeners (as well as a complaint), including:

Is there a way to determine what size fly line is best on an unmarked rod at home?

What is your advice on fishing stocked-only streams?

Can I practice my double haul with the Practi-Caster?

A listener takes me to task for saying on a previous podcast that if I were back in the 1880s and had the choice of whether or not to stock brown trout, would I do it?

As well as avoiding reds during the spawning season, shouldn't we take care not to step on them throughout the winter?

Any advice for fishing for carp in moving water?

I forgot my leader and had to fish with just a couple pieces of tippet material, 3X and 5X. What would you have done?

How does the time of day and the moon phase affect trout fishing? I am fishing large bass flies and have little back cast room. Any advice?

I can't catch fish on beetle imitations. Any advice?

What advice do you have for someone who is used to small streams and wants to fish big water?

Why don't saltwater guides use nets?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.1	And my guest this week is Charlie Robinson. And Charlie is another member of our outfitter
0:25.7	team, Charlie Hales from California. And Charlie is an expert in fishing in that area.
0:34.2	Charlie's was once upon a time the fishing manager in the Orvis store in Roseville,
0:40.6	outside of Sacramento. And so Charlie's going to be talking to us about
0:45.9	travel fishing in northern California. And there's lots of opportunities there. And it's a great
0:52.6	part of the world and that you can find some surprisingly peaceful places in northern California.
1:01.0	So and lots of good fishing. So hope you enjoy that and hope you get some ideas for your next trip.
1:08.7	But first we're going to do the fly box. And the fly box is where I try to answer your questions,
1:14.5	if I can. And if you have a question for the fly box, you can send it to me at podcast at
1:23.1	orvis.com. And you can either just put your question in the body of your email, question, comment,
1:29.5	complaint, whatever. Or you can attach a voice file. And I'm a little short on voice files these
1:36.8	days. Everybody wants to type out their questions. So I'd love to have some some good,
1:41.6	meaty, interesting questions and love to hear your voice. So let's get some more voice files
1:47.7	because I only got one this week. But let's start with an email. The first one is from Troy
1:54.2	from Pennsylvania. Hi Tom, love the podcast. I have a question about how to determine a rod's weight.
1:59.8	I recently bought a couple of old rods on an auction because my daughter showed an interest in fly
2:05.7	fishing. The problem I'm running into is that the weight markings on the rods either war off
2:11.5	or non-existent. Is there an easy way at home I can determine what weight the rods are so I can
2:17.0	purchase the correct fly line? If so, does the method work for all types of rods, fiberglass,
2:22.8	bamboo, etc. Hope to hear from you soon. And thank you for all you and everyone else at
2:28.2	orvis does for the sport. Well Troy, I kind of got some bad news for you. There is no real way
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