Drift-Boat Etiquette on Crowded Water. with Wade Fellin

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week the main topic of the podcast is the issue of etiquette on our more crowded trout streams, in particular the conflicts that have arisen due to the popularity of fishing from drift boats and the issues that have developed both with boat and wade anglers. My guest is Wade Fellin, Montana native, lifelong fishing guide, and lodge owner. Wade gives some examples of recent poor etiquette he’s seen on his home river, the Big Hole, and how these kinds of conflicts can be avoided. We also explore some ways that clients as well as guides can help mitigate these issues. In the Fly Box this week, as usual we have some interesting questions (and tips) that I hope will be of interest to everyone. Some of the topics we explore are: What do you think of flies with spinner blades in front of them? Are Tenkara rods good in small brushy streams? Should I be worried about fishing in a lightning storm with my graphite rod? What are your thoughts about orientation on articulated hooks? What can I do about CDC getting slicked back on my flies? Is swinging flies for smallmouths a valid tactic? Can I swing wet flies with my level competition line? What can I do about red dye running from materials on my flies? Is it OK to use a level leader when surf and jetty fishing? What can we do about fish in heavily fished areas getting mangled mouths? Can I catch catfish on a fly? I have heard people say they catch trout with 80-foot casts? What is a practical casting distance?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orbis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on August 8th, 2019.
0:17.0	And our special guest today is Wade Felon of Big Hole Lodge in Wies River, Montana. And today we're going to talk about
0:32.3	etiquette on trout streams and specifically etiquette where
0:37.5	it relates to overcrowding or crowding with drift boats and wading anglers on a river.
0:45.8	So of course there are no easy solutions to this, but Wade and I are going to kind of discuss
0:50.7	the issues how both guides and clients can help mitigate some of these problems.
0:58.4	So I think it's a thought-provoking discussion and I hope you stay tuned for that.
1:04.0	But before we do that, let's do the flybox.
1:08.0	And before we do the flybox, let's tell you how you can send in questions for the flybox.
1:15.0	You can email podcast at Orvis.com
1:21.0	and I'll read your email and I may or may not answer it on the air or you can send me a voice file
1:27.8	At the same email address just record an audio file on your phone and send it along. Those are the best ways to send a question.
1:37.0	If you want, you can also follow me on Instagram at Rosenbauer T. I try to do the same kind of things on
1:46.4	Instagram that I do here on the podcast little educational or or fun tidbits
1:52.0	with a little more visual obviously. I don't do enough videos on
1:56.6	Instagram I want to do more and I will try to but I'm more of a I'm more of a still
2:02.0	photographed guy so but we're filming a new TV show second season of the
2:09.2	Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing which will be on PBS and Amazon Prime and YouTube next spring and as we
2:20.4	start shot listing the footage I'll try to pull little clips from there and give you a little
2:25.6	teaser about what the show is going to look like next year. So anyways, let's go to the podcast, or let's go to the flybox and the first question is from
2:39.2	Andy doesn't say where he's from. Thanks for the podcast.
2:44.0	I've recently gotten back into fly fishing since moving to southern Wisconsin.
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