Fly Fishing for Steelhead and Salmon in Estuaries, with Reed Teuscher

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

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

You can catch salmon and steelhead on a fly in salt water before they enter rivers. The fish are bright and strong and may still be actively feeding but the problem is to find them in a big expanse of water. Reed Teuscher [41:01] of the Orvis Outfitters team tells us where to look for them, how to present the fly, what kinds of rods and lines you need—and of course what fly patterns seem to work best.

In the Fly Box this week we have these questions and more:

How can I keep my dropper from twisting around the leader when Euro nymphing?
What kinds of flies are banned and why?
If I only fish a few days a year, how long will my fly lines last?
Do guides tell Tom "set!" when he fishes with them? And do they tell him where to put his flies?
Do brook trout feed less than brown trout during spawning season?
Am I missing something by not building my own leaders?
What does a 3-weight rod give me that my 4-weight won't?
When you under-line a fly rod and increase your line speed, does that detract from your accuracy?
On articulated flies with only a single hook, should I keep the hook in front or in back?
I want to learn to fly fish next season. Should I buy a rod now and practice over the winter before taking an FF101 class?
I had a frustrating day with spooky brown trout. I could not get 25 feet away from them without spooking them. How can I catch these trout?
What fly patterns use micro mink Zonker strips?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing podcast. This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer.
0:22.6	And my guest this week is Reed Tushar. Reed is a member of the Orvis Outfitter team. He is one of the people who answers your,
0:30.4	either your email or your telephone questions or sometimes your chat questions when you have
0:36.9	technical questions about fishing products
0:39.5	or he can just answer questions about fishing in general.
0:43.6	And we'll talk about that program as we get into the podcast and I talk to read.
0:51.0	But the topic this week is estuary and saltwater fishing for salmon and steelhead,
0:58.4	something that there isn't a lot of stuff out there about.
1:03.6	There is some.
1:05.4	But it's a topic that leads to be aired a little bit more and um reed talks about how to uh how to intercept
1:15.6	these fish in the estuaries of the west coast and how to catch them and what flies to use of course
1:23.4	he's going to give us some some great flies and so if you live on the west coast or if you're
1:30.1	there visiting i think this will be a valuable podcast for you in the end if you don't live on
1:36.4	the west coast and you have some you know some lake run salmon and steelhead that are maybe
1:43.1	going into streams in the Great Lakes,
1:47.0	freshwater landlocked steelhead and Pacific salmon,
1:51.3	you may also pick up some tips for chasing these fish.
1:56.8	And before we get into a flybox, just a couple announcements this week.
2:01.3	I still have spaces on my hosted trip to the Bahamas in April, both to Swain's Key and H-2O
2:08.8	bone fishing.
2:09.8	And I also have spaces for my trip to Iceland next July.
2:15.9	All of my Argentina and Chile trips this winter are full. So if you're,
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