Fishing the Tailwaters of Eastern Tennessee with Patrick Fulkrod, the 2014 Orvis-Endorsed Guide of the Year

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

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast Patrick Fulkrod, the 2014 Orvis-Endorsed Guide of the Year, gives us a very full accounting of fly fishing on the east Tennessee tailwaters, specifically the Watauga and South Holston rivers. He spills some of his secrets on hatches, seasons, water levels, and special techniques. In the Fly Box, we have questions on trimming hackle for dry flies, hackles to use on saltwater flies, how to set the hook on downstream fish, what to do on an unfamiliar river, crane fly larvae, how to fish nymphs for cutthroats in over 15 feet of water in a river (my advice—don’t), and finally how you can lose weight and get in better shape by listening to the podcast.

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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.
0:21.9	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast is being recorded on April 14th
0:29.6	2015 and a little bit later in the podcast, we're going to have Patrick Folkrod as a guest.
0:38.4	Patrick is the Orvis 2014 Endorse Guide of the Year.
0:44.0	He's going to tell us about fly fishing on the tailwaters of East Tennessee,
0:50.0	specifically the what
0:55.0	South Holston so Patrick's a great guy and I know you're gonna learn a lot and as part of the the
0:58.6	ongoing series that we're gonna have on fishing in various parts of the country
1:02.4	but before that let's go to
1:04.8	some flybox questions. And the first one is from Ron. He's from Texas. I have a question about setting the hook. When fishing a dry, an
1:17.8	infra dry fly and quartering upstream, do you have a conscious strategy if the fish strikes
1:22.0	upstream?
1:23.4	You're going to set the hook one way,
1:24.9	cross stream another way, and downstream yet another.
1:27.6	Or do you just instinctively set the hook whenever and whatever?
1:31.5	When I get downstream strikes, I seem to instinctively pull the fly out of
1:34.9	their mouth.
1:35.9	It's a good question Ron and you know there you see all these these I've read
1:41.7	before about these tricky ways of setting the hook to the side or up or down or backwards or whatever.
1:50.0	And if you look at what's going on when your flies on the water, no matter which direction you move that rod tip,
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