Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiasts. from your

fly fishing author

and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing podcast.

Lately we've had a lot of requests for a podcast on choosing a fly rod, getting the right

fly rod for me.

And I don't doubt that it's a confusing subject to someone who's just getting started in

fly fishing. There are so many rods out there, so many varieties, lengths,

and line sizes, and price points, and colors,

and everything else.

It's an intimidating prospect but it doesn't have to be that

difficult if you break it down into steps. And I thought I'd talk about this week about choosing a rod for trout fishing and then in a subsequent

podcast we can talk about choosing a rod for salmon or salt water steelhead some of the bigger rods.

So let's talk about trout rods this week.

The very first thing you want to decide

is what line size do I need.

Fly lines come in sizes or weight.

Sometimes you'll hear it called a line weight

from 1 to 12 with 1 or 1 actually 1 to 14, 15, with 1 being a very, very thin light line used for small trout, small flies, short casts, and 12 being a rod that you would use for

tarpin or tuna or giant travally, great big bruisers,

and the 14s, 13s and 14s are typically

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