Fishing the Alps, with Miha Ivanc

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

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

I frequently get questions from listeners traveling to Europe, curious about fly fishing opportunities in Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland. I've never fished there and don't have any answers, so I reached out to Miha Ivanc [40:52] of Kyrka River Lodge in Slovenia, who has fished all through the Alps. In the podcast you'll learn where to fish, what species to expect (like their native marbled trout), how to fish for them, and where to get permission to fish. It should be an eye-opener to most of us.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some particularly interesting questions, including:

Can I use flies for ice fishing?
I mostly fish lakes and am having problems on streams. With long casts I get drag and with shorter casts I worry about spooking fish. What should I do?
Can I work downstream with a streamer and then work back up through the same water with a dry dropper?
Is there a risk in tippet material breaking down in sunlight when it is on a tippet holder exposed to the sun?
I see people catching trout on worms but I can't seem to fool them on flies. What am I doing wrong and do you have any tips?
Is it legal to raise jungle cock for feathers in the US, and is anyone doing it?
A listener corrects me on a statement I made regarding using molted feathers from songbirds to tie flies.
Do you have any tips for traveling to Chile to fish at Magic Waters?
If I see water striders and small baitfish in a pool, does that mean there won't be any larger trout there?
How much life can I expect from a leader I made myself?
Can I tell the difference between wild and hatchery trout by looking at them?
I can't seem to catch more than two trout from any one pool. What am I doing wrong?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:13.7	This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer.
0:15.6	And, you know, I often get questions from people about fishing in the Alps.
0:21.5	People are going to Italy or France or Slovenia or Austria.
0:28.5	And they want to look into some fishing and they want to know how to go about it and what to expect.
0:34.8	And honestly, I've never been there.
0:36.7	So I don't know what to expect. And honestly, I've never been there. So I don't know what to expect.
0:39.0	So I figured I would call up an expert on fishing in the Alps. So my guest this week is
0:45.5	Miha Ivans from Slovenia. And the entire interview is in Sloven Slovenian no just kidding he speaks very good English
0:57.4	and and uh Mija is um is from Slovenia but he's fished throughout the Alps and he talks about
1:06.3	what the fishing is like uh how to get permission you you know, how to find out where you can fish
1:13.7	and what kind of fish you might catch. It's mainly going to be native brown trout and native
1:21.3	marbled trout and then some introduced rainbows. But of course, it's a beautiful part of the
1:26.9	world and a lot of us go on vacation in that region. But, of course, it's a beautiful part of the world, and a lot of us go on
1:29.1	vacation in that region. So I thought I would try to educate all of us about fishing in the
1:37.8	Alps. Before we do that, I got a couple of things to do. One is the flybox, but even before that,
1:44.0	it's getting toward
1:45.5	toward holiday season and you might be thinking of a gift for someone else or for yourself and honestly
1:52.9	one of the one of the greatest gifts that anyone can receive other than a trip to someplace exotic
2:00.6	is um is a flytying kit someplace exotic, is a fly tying kit.
2:02.8	If you're not a fly tire, I don't think you can ever truly appreciate everything about
2:10.8	fly fishing.
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