Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,

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 author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.

Hi and welcome to the Orbis fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being recorded on

May 9th, 2014 and a little later on the show, we have a great podcast on Pike and Musky

fishing. We're going to talk about tooty critters today. I have my friend Colin McEwen who's

host and owner of the new Fly Fisher TV show which you can see on World Fishing

Network and on some PBS stations and it's a show that I've been

lucky enough to host a few times. So anyway, before we do that let's do the flybox and we don't have that many questions this week because I've actually done two podcasts this week.

I'm trying to get back on a more regular schedule and give you more podcasts because I know you're always

looking for new stuff to listen to while you're cutting the lawn or on your

commute or sitting on a train or a plane or whatever so gonna try to keep up with a more regular

Podcast schedule the first question is an email from Tom.

Tom says my question concerns flylines and hang-ups.

Inevitably my almost where I cast it

where I want it, where I want it cast, finds a hefty log to latch on, snagging

my fly beyond hope.

Well, join the crowd, Tom.

I think I do that just about every other cast some days. The stream is too wide to cross. I have no option but to pull on the line until my fly and a few inches of lead or remain.

While my fly flies backward to find the tree, my fly line flies backward to find the tree behind me.

I want to know just how much damage I'm doing to that line as it stretches to the limit of my 5X Tippet. Well, Tom, you're not doing any

damage at all of that fly line. Five X Tippet tests, I don't know, what is it, four or five, six

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