East vs West with Jess McGlothlin
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week I have a chat with Jess McGlothlin—author, blogger, photographer, conservationist, and a very accomplished fly fisher. She’s a Montana native and had her own business in the equestrian business before she fell in love with fly fishing and decided to devote her life to writing about it. You have probably read pieces with Jess’s byline over the past few years, but you’ll be reading more of her in the future as we hired her last winter as our outdoor copywriter—but Jess adds so much more to our team than just words on paper or on a screen as you’ll learn in the interview, where we compare Eastern to Western fly fishing. We have the usual fly box topics like when to wear landing gloves, when to use a “hitched” fly, how to set up your fishing vest, and a philosophy for tying or buying flies by size—in other words, if someone recommends Prince nymphs in sizes 14-18, can you just get away with a size 16? In case you don’t get to the podcast until later in the week, I’m speaking at Orvis Pittsburgh this Thursday (June 12) on Fishing Small Streams at 3 pm and Reading the Water at 6 pm. The seminars are free and I’ll be in the sore all day if you want to stop in and give me your podcast suggestions in person. Should be fun and I am looking forward to it.
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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. |
| 0:20.7 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast is being recorded on June 6th D-Day 2014 and I bet you're proud of me because I've been keeping up with these podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Everybody getting their podcast fix and you're able to do your commute and cut the lawn and all that stuff. |
| 0:41.0 | Anyway, don't worry, it won't last, but I'm trying to keep up with them lately |
| 0:46.5 | and getting lots of good feedback and lots of good questions, so hope you're enjoying it. So we have a special guest today, and she's an ex guide in Montana Native, |
| 1:00.5 | and now works for Orvis, and I'm not to tell anymore. The rest of it's a secret but |
| 1:04.8 | she'll be on the show in a little bit. We're going to talk about comparing eastern and |
| 1:09.3 | western fly fishing. But first let's do the flybox. So the first email is from James from Rockville, Maryland. Jim from Rockville, Maryland. |
| 1:22.0 | Jim says how important is a size? from Rockville, Maryland. |
| 1:23.0 | Jim says, how important is the size of the fly that is? |
| 1:26.0 | For example, if I have a choice between a size 14, 16, and 18 |
| 1:30.3 | prints and have no other information on what to base my selection. Can I fish to |
| 1:34.4 | size 16 and reasonably hope that I am covering the 14 to 18 range? Similarly, |
| 1:39.2 | if I need a whole range of sizes for a particular file like the atoms can I buy |
| 1:44.1 | can I tie or buy every other size and figure I can still cover most situations. |
| 1:48.0 | That would certainly be a lot easier on the wallet and it would be a lot easier |
| 1:52.2 | even if you're tying your own. |
| 1:55.4 | That was my little interjection there. |
| 1:59.2 | So Jim, good question and I think you're probably correct. |
| 2:05.8 | Particularly subsurface fishing, |
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