Fishing for Freshwater Stripers with Henry Cowen

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

🗓️ 10 May 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week I had a great talk with Henry Cowen on freshwater stripers. Henry is a saltwater angler and fly tier of great experience who brought his talents to freshwater stripers, and he has some wonderful tips for finding these big guys, flies to use, and techniques to get them to eat your fly. Also, we have lots of good fly box questions on saltwater fly tying, bad loops on fly lines, and other tidbits. Also a young listener takes me to task for banning cell phone calls to the request line and I should have known better. He says the only people he knows who have land lines are his parents. Guess I am showing my age, so please do use your cell phones for the podcast request line—just please not from your car and from a place with good service!

Note: A listener named Trevor called in with a great question about canoes vs kayaks. Please call again Trevor as we could not locate your call when it came time to produce the show.

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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.
0:21.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being
0:25.1	recorded on May 7th 2014. Here's an email from Dr Boris.
0:35.0	Dr Boris had a bunch of questions.
0:40.0	I can't answer all from Dr Boris, but I'll answer but I'll answer three out of your three out of your four anyway
0:48.8	how small a willy bugger is the smallest you would tie and use.
0:54.4	Fourteen. How's that?
0:55.1	I like small woolly buggers.
0:57.2	I fish him dead drift often.
0:59.5	It's a pretty good imitation of a stonefly nim
1:02.2	for a little crayfish and you can also twitch
1:05.1	them if you want so later in the season on a light tip it a 12 or 14
1:10.0	Willie Bugger is a pretty cool little fly to use.
1:14.0	I've heard you say you keep a rod and reel the vehicle.
1:17.0	What are you having your ready kit in terms of tools, flies, etc.
1:21.0	To complete this setup for some impromptu small stream fishing. Do you have all
1:24.8	of your stuff in the car? Just a lanyard or a vestful. I have it all Dr Boris. I have
1:31.3	a pickup truck so I can throw it all in the back. It's a covered
1:35.2	pickup truck and I just I just always have my stuff. So I, uh, I if I'm going more than a couple hours away I'll probably have a cooler and a couple
1:47.3	extra rods and maybe an extra pair of waiters and some extra clothes but if it's impromptu it's always there so if I
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