Finding and catching stream smallmouth bass on a fly rod with Paul Caldwell

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

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast feature smallmouth expert Paul Caldwell with his tips on finding and catching stream smallmouths on a fly rod. Paul is a specialist in the Outfitter area in our Roanoke customer service department, and handles technical questions for guides, dealers, and all anglers who have questions on tackle—or just plain fishing questions. As you’ll hear, we have a talented staff in Virginia with first-rate anglers manning our phone, e-mail, and chat lines. In the Fly Box this week, we talk about spooky brook trout, how much pressure a small stream can take, how to wash your waders, why stocked trout have banged-up fins and jaws, how to decide angling tactics based on habitat or trout species, ways to test your hook-setting abilities, and how to play a trout with a long leader.

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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.
0:21.6	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being
0:26.3	recorded on June 1st 2016 but by the time you're listening to this, I will be standing on the bow of my buddy Aaron's
0:37.9	flats boat, hopefully spotting some big tarpin. You shouldn't feel sorry for me. Sometimes people write to
0:46.2	the podcast and worry that I don't get enough and get out and fish enough but I do
0:51.1	plenty. I get my fill in and nobody should feel sorry for me. I gotta have new
0:57.5	podcast material. Anyways a little later on in the podcast, we have a special guest, Paul Caldwell, who is going to talk about catching stream swamouts.
1:10.0	And I know that stream small mouths are a big favorite of a lot of podcast listeners.
1:16.4	They're always really popular podcasts and he's got some cool tips to tell us about. But first we have the flybox.
1:25.0	Hey Tom, this is Ben from Minnesota. Just give me a call to thanks for the
1:31.9	podcast and share a little anecdote with you. I recently
1:36.2	listened to your podcast on getting out of your comfort zone. And I have to smile to myself because I had recently had an opportunity
1:45.9	to go to Cancun and fish for baby turban on the fly. Way out of my element, learned a little bit about my terrible casting and as well as strip setting
2:00.1	and brought that back to the driftless area. and got into a spot where the only opportunity to set the hook was to strip set on the trout in a very small tight stream.
2:15.0	Again, thanks, I love what you do.
2:20.0	Also I have a question for you about fishing for trout in small streams.
2:27.0	When you see a pool full of fish with clear water and they're skittish, you know that from the prior experiences.
2:38.0	What is it that you do first?
2:41.0	Yeah, skit help me out. That'd be great. Thanks.
2:45.0	Don, that's a great job of getting out of your comfort zone and glad you had such a successful trip.
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