Erica Nelson on Finding the Right Fishing Guide

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

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week my guest is Orvis-endorsed guide Erica Nelson [36:12]. Erica gives us tips on how to hire a guide, how to find the right guide, how to manage expectations with a guide, how to tip a guide, and what to do if your guide trip is a disaster. In the Fly Box this week, we have some great questions and comments, including: Can I use the 10-foot, 3-weight Recon rod for both Euro nymphing and small-stream trout fishing? What has Tom learned lately? Has he had any "aha" moments? A listener makes the point that the overharvest of menhaden, a valuable forage fish, threatens our saltwater gamefish populations on the Atlantic Coast, and gives a great book recommendation on the topic. A listener asks if he should consider the shorter 8-weight Blackout rod for a wide variety of fishing situations. Thoughts from a listener on the value of native fish populations A suggestion from a listener on two items every fly fisher who goes off the grid should carry I had a rainbow trout nose my fly and slap the fly with its tail six times. Why did the fish do that?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.1	This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and my guest this week is Erika Nelson.
0:19.9	Erika is an Orvis and Doris guide from Colorado and Erika was here visiting me in Vermont
0:26.4	and we sat down and talked about about guides, about hiring guides, how do you find a guide,
0:33.1	how do you communicate with your guide both before and during your trip and how much do
0:39.5	you tip a guide, is it ever okay to stiff a guide without a tip and what to do about
0:47.1	you know a guide that doesn't do a good job.
0:49.4	So I think it's an interesting podcast and we'll answer a lot of questions that I frequently
0:55.9	get podcast questions that I frequently get.
0:59.0	So I hope you enjoy it and I hope it helps you arrange your next guide trip.
1:06.2	But first let's do the fly box and I'm going to try to answer your questions and read some
1:12.4	of your nice comments about various things and if you have a question or a comment for
1:19.0	the fly box you can send it to me at podcastatorvis.com.
1:24.8	You can either attach a voice file or you can type your question in the body of your
1:32.4	email and I haven't had a lot of voice file questions, I'm only going to read one, I'm
1:39.1	only going to have one voice file because I haven't had any really good questions over
1:43.8	voice files recently so you know if you can do a voice file that would be great, it's
1:49.1	always nice to hear your voice.
1:52.4	And then I don't have to read the question.
1:55.3	So anyway let's start the fly box with first email from Shane from Cambridge Massachusetts.
2:07.1	I love the podcast and all the great educational content that you and Orvis produce.
2:11.5	I just started fly fishing this year and had some early success in large part due to all
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