Fishing close to home, with Bon Iver’s Sean Carey
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
My guest this week is Sean Carey [48:31], drummer and keyboard player for the indie folk band Bon Iver, who also records solo work as S Carey. Sean has been fly fishing for many years, beginning when he was in high school, and we spend a lot of time discussing the concept of “growing where you were planted” or learning the pleasures of discovering fly fishing close to home. And of course we talk about how fly fishing has influenced his song writing, and also what the theoretical difference might be in the way a classically trained musician approaches fly fishing as opposed to the way a jazz musician might. At the end of the podcast is a special treat—a recording of his song “Yellowstone” (but no it’s not a fishing song even though we all associate that area with fishing).
In the Fly Box this week, we have a bunch of thought-provoking questions from listeners, including:
If I can see a fish in the water, does that mean it can see me? Or does a trout’s “window” work in reverse?
What do you think of tying the dropper onto the eye of the dry fly instead of the bend when using a dry-dropper rig?
Are those rock dams that people make in streams bad for trout?
What is your opinion of Jack’s Knot?
Will Tenkara fishing work on small, clear spring creeks? W
hy does the Crackleback fly work?
If I have a bunch of old reels with lines on them, can a fly shop tell me what size they are?
What kind of additional flies and gear do I need when moving form smallmouth bass fishing to tailwater trout fishing?
What do you do for protection in bear and cougar country?
What is your preferred method for fishing a nymph under an indicator?
I got an H3 rod as a gift and I don’t feel I am good enough to use it yet. What do you think about this?
Shawn Brillon gives me the answers on four questions about bamboo rods as a follow-up to his recent podcast
Would my 10-foot 7-weight rod be OK for bonefishing in the Turks and Caicos?
Bass keep throwing my heavy cone-head streamers when they jump. Would keeping tension on them when they jump prevent this?
How do you know what rod size to use?
How do you know what tippet size to use?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to the Four of Us Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer. |
| 0:17.1 | And my guest this week is Sean Carey. Sean is better known. He's a musician and he's |
| 0:23.4 | better known as a solo artist with the name of S Carey. And he's also the drummer and a |
| 0:30.8 | keyboard player in an indie band called Bonivere, which if you listen to any indie rock you have |
| 0:37.6 | probably heard of. And Sean loves to fly fish. He's fly fish for many years. And what we're going |
| 0:43.6 | to explore today is yeah, we're going to talk about music and fly fishing and how fly fishing |
| 0:49.3 | affects his his composing and his thoughts on the river. But we're going to talk a lot about |
| 0:55.6 | fishing close to home grow where you planted where you're planted as as Sean says. And why he loves |
| 1:06.9 | even though he travels a lot and tours a lot why he loves fishing close to home as much as he does |
| 1:13.7 | and we both wonder why more people don't don't grow where they're planted. So I hope you enjoy |
| 1:20.8 | this. He's an interesting guest and we'll play a one of his pieces at the end of the podcast called |
| 1:29.8 | Yellowstone that I think you'll enjoy if you like kind of mellow indie rock. So that's our |
| 1:36.6 | guest for today. But first the fly box. And this is where you ask me questions. And sometimes I try |
| 1:45.0 | to answer. And sometimes I get it wrong. Sometimes I get it right. And when I get it wrong, |
| 1:51.8 | there will be an expert out there to correct me. So if you have a question for the podcast or |
| 1:57.9 | if you have a tip you want to share with other listeners, you can send it to me at podcast at |
| 2:03.5 | orvis.com. You can either just type your question in an email or you can attach a voice file |
| 2:10.8 | and maybe I'll read it on the air. If I pick your question, if I can help, if I can answer the |
| 2:17.1 | question, try to keep your questions to things that you think other people might benefit from. And |
| 2:22.9 | also try to keep your voice files two minutes or under two and a half is stretching it, but two |
| 2:28.5 | minutes are under because we don't none of us want to ramble too much. So anyway, let's get started |
| 2:35.8 | with the podcast. And the first question is from Andrew from Pennsylvania and Vermont. Love the |
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