Fifteen tips on Switching from Freshwater to Saltwater Fly Fishing

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

🗓️ 30 April 2012

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, in preparation for the best months of saltwater fishing from Maine to Florida (May and June) we explore the idea of moving from freshwater to salt. Trout anglers are seldom prepared for the transition to saltwater fly fishing--although the equipment requirements are easy enough to understand and you only need a few extra knots, it's mainly the casting and the expectations that throw trout anglers a curve ball. There are 15 tips for making this transition easy and fun. Also in the Fly Box this week, we answer questions about the Surgeon's vs. Clinch knots, knots for attaching wire bite tippets, polarized sunglass colors, hook styles on nymphs, trout stream ettiquette, and how to balance a reel with a rod (or not).

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:14.6	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This is Tom Rosenbauer and we got some flybox questions this week and we also have a main podcast on going from fresh to salt water.
0:30.0	So let's start with some of the flybox
0:32.8	little flybox questions simple ones that we can do quickly.
0:36.6	Court Morris on a phone call wanted to know something about knots and bass so let's listen to court's call.
0:42.3	Okay Tom knots and
0:47.3	Hey Tom and August podcast people
0:56.1	My name is Courtney Morris. I'm calling from Western Massachusetts and I had a couple questions but first let me say thank you so much for your podcast all your information that you've given to me and everyone else over the last, well for me I've
1:05.1	only been listening for the last maybe six months but you've really sped up my fly fishing IQ
1:12.0	with my intelligence
1:13.2	of the sport. I really appreciate it.
1:14.8	The two questions that I had were, one, I was wondering,
1:20.2	I've been using a surgeon's knot or a triple over and not to attach my tippets
1:26.6	to the end of my leader and I know there's other knots, blood knots, do it. I was
1:31.5	wondering you know should I take the time to learn these
1:34.2	other knots are there situations where those would be more useful than the knots
1:40.2	that I'm using and my other question was since it's spring time I'm hoping to somehow
1:46.5	get into small mouth baths and I was wondering is there a difference in presentation for largemouth fast and small mouth fast?
1:57.0	If there is a difference, maybe you could talk about that.
2:01.0	Again, thanks a lot for all the information. Bye.
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