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

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and I got an exciting new toy. I actually

I should say we have an exciting new toy. I've got a remote recording device, microphone called a handy recorder and it's supposed to have excellent sound.

The cool thing about this is that we can do a podcast on the stream, on a boat, can take it with me and interview people when I'm meeting interesting people on the road.

So I'm meeting interesting people on the road. So I'm really excited about using this

and would like to know how the sound sounds to you.

I'm in the podcast studio today, so the only difference is the microphone, but it'll be really

cool to use this on the road and record podcasts from different places.

Not that we couldn't do that with a video camera, but then we got to deal with video podcasts which are a little bit more difficult. So anyway, let us know, let us know about the sound quality or let us know what you'd like to hear in future

podcast.

You can get hold of us at 802, 362, 8800, that's the podcast request line. I listen to all of them.

And you can also get hold of us, which seems to be easier for most people by email at podcast at orbits.com. If you have a

incredible brand new world-class marketing solution to sell me, don't use the podcast

request line. I delete all those. So let's take some questions first of all some short questions

Chris from Rochester, Minnesota wants to know how to fish log jams. He says they're frustrating

and he doesn't know the best way to get his fly into the fish without

getting a stag or spooking a fish. Well, that's the problem, Chris, and there are probably no easy solutions fishing log jams takes takes a little bit of

a little bit of courage in a leap of faith that you're going to be able to hook a fish under there and not lose some flies.

One of the most important things is when you snag your fly on a log jam, do you break it off and hope that the twanging sound of your fly breaking off didn't

spook the fish or do you go in and try to retrieve the fly? That's probably the most important thing. But fishing log jams, one of the best ways to do it is to come back to a log gym in the evening or the time of day when fish are rising and insects are on the water because fish can't

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