Hey, Tom. This is Jonathan Snaid from Fort Worth, Texas. Again, I've called you a couple

of times before, and I, again, I just want to thank you. Echo has said before that. I just

appreciate the podcast and all the information you give us. You do a great job, and I hope you

continue to do it for a long time coming. I head over to Dallas, the Dallas-Orbit shop, the

test cat that he lives to here in the next couple of weeks. I hope it doesn't ruin me, but

I'm looking forward to giving it a try and I'm probably in a purchasing one of those rods.

I did have a couple of questions for you, that could be either a flybox topic or a podcast topic.

The first is, do you have any tips for tying smaller flies? I do pretty well down to 16 and

even an 18, but when it starts tying in 20 and 22 size flies, I wouldn't even try and tie

smaller flies with that. I just get into trouble and they're a lot harder to tie, and they

don't look right. I've chosen the proportion to that. So any tips you have, I find small flies would be great.

In the other tip, or the other question I would ask is, is there anything I can do to prevent

sour-looking fish? I know it's going to happen with your fish in, especially with multi-fly rigs,

but I don't know if there's something to do with the length of the dropper or

or presentation or what. So if you have any tips on how to minimize sour-looking fish,

that would be great. Thanks again for all your hard work and all your advice and

welcome to the Orvis Flyfishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer bringing you tips, tricks,

and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host,

a claim flyfishing author and lifelong flyfishing enthusiast, Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Flyfishing Guide podcast. Well thanks Jonathan for those nice words,

and before I get to your questions on tying small flies, I wanted to get back to all of you with

the feedback you give me, and thank you all for the feedback on the podcast. A lot of you took

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