Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques

to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiasts. from your

fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide

podcast this is Tom Rosenbauer

and lately on our Facebook page we've been getting a

number of requests for a podcast on Tailwater trout fishing, probably because that's about the only

trout fishing we have this time of year is fishing below tailwater for the

most part, the best fishing anyways.

So we also had a request for podcast on fishing junk.

By junk I mean junk is a term that my friend Jim McPhage and a

guide on the big horn calls eggs and worms and flies like that that some people frown upon because they're not imitations of may flies or

stone flies or catas flies.

So you use a lot of junk in tail waters or junk is pretty effective in tailwater.

So I thought I'd combine the two, talk a little bit about tailwater trout fishing and

then talk a little bit specifically about maybe about the philosophy of junk fishing and a little bit about how to fish these kinds of flies.

So a tail water is a trout river, a trout stream that flows out of a dam.

So it begins at the tail race below a dam.

And there may be another, there'll be a reservoir or a lake above that and there might be a

be some sort of free-flowing river above the lake,

whether it's tributaries coming into the lake

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