Fishing Early Spring Midges in Tailwaters with Pat Dorsey

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

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, I have the pleasure of picking Pat Dorsey’s brain on winter and early spring midge fishing in tailwaters. Pat is one of our foremost experts on small fly fishing, and is known far and wide as a guide, writer, fly tier, and presenter. Plus he’s just a cool guy. In the Fly Box this week, we have a surprise guest talking about an infamous bumper sticker, the difference between tippet material and regular fishing line, estimating how big trout get in small streams, a couple of dubbing techniques, how to find seam leaks in waders, avoiding tangles in two-fly rigs (don’t expect any brilliant ideas), and using stripping baskets with Spey rods.

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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 Rosenbauer.
0:20.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this
0:26.2	podcast is being recorded on March 1st 2017 and a little bit later in the show we're going to have what I think is a great talk with
0:38.2	Pat Dorsey who is one of the finest guides and tailwater experts that I know.
0:49.2	It's going to be fun.
0:50.0	We're going to talk a lot about fishing midges and small flies in late winter and
0:54.6	early spring and I know I learned a lot and got excited about getting out to do some
1:01.0	of this tailwater angling this spring and I think you will too.
1:04.8	Oh and by the way I'm going to be in Texas this weekend. I'm going to be in the Plano Orvis store on March 9th, and I'm going to be in the Dallas
1:19.6	store on March 10th, and then on March 11th and 12th I'm going to be at the Texas Fly Fishing and Brew Festival.
1:29.5	So hope to see some of the podcast listeners there in the stores I'm going to be doing a
1:34.7	presentation on reading the water and then going to show you why I'm excited about
1:39.3	some of the new products for spring and then at the Wine and Brew Festival I'm doing a presentation loosely based on my latest book
1:48.0	How to take your fly fishing for trout to the next level.
1:53.0	And then I'm also going to be in New York City at the, at Orvis New York on April 4th to do the product presentation. So hope to see some of the
2:05.8	podcast listeners at one of those events. But before we do that, let's go into the flybox.
2:15.0	Here's a letter from Scott from Grand Junction, Colorado.
2:22.0	I had a few different questions I was hoping you could answer.
2:26.0	First, the closest trout water I have to my residence is a smaller, though not tiny stream,
2:31.0	about six to ten feet across and one to five feet deep depending on the spot.
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