Fly-Tying Material Subsitutions, with Cheech Pierce

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

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Cheech from Fly Fish Food [@36:00], a highly regarded tier and teacher whose videos are popular with serious fly tiers. He's an engaging character who knows fly materials inside and out. We talk fly material substitutions, particularly hook styles, and ramble on all sorts of things related to fly tying. I hope you find it as fun to listen to as I did to record it.

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

What do I use for leader formulas?
I am used to graphite; what should I expect from a short, delicate glass rod?
Can I vary from the 60:20:20 formula if I tie my own leaders?
A discussion of brook trout habitat and survival
I broke four inches off my old Trident TLS rod. It's no longer under the 25-year guarantee as my dad bought it in a pawn shop. Is there any way I can still use it?
What is a simple buggy nymph I can tie up, as a novice fly tier?
Why is my casting more accurate with my short fiberglass rod than with my longer, heavier graphite rods?
Do all fish behave the same?
Can you recommend a good hatch guide for Tennessee?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:11.8	This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer, and this week we got a fly time podcast.
0:16.7	I know that a lot of you have fly time questions and love fly time podcasts, so we're going
0:23.8	to do it today and we're going to have a new guest on with us, a new fly time expert.
0:29.0	This is Cheach from Fly Fish Food and Cheach is a great teacher of incredibly knowledgeable
0:36.6	fly tire and has some great, great videos on the web and on his website at Fly Fish Food.
0:45.3	So I had a lot of fun talking to Cheach and I'm sure you will enjoy it as well.
0:51.3	He's quite knowledgeable and entertaining gentlemen.
0:54.7	So I hope you enjoy that.
0:58.2	At first let's do the fly box and you can have a question on the fly box if you want.
1:09.3	You can send an email to podcastatorvis.com and you can either just type in a question
1:17.1	or you can attach a voice file from your phone and send it to me at podcastatorvis.com.
1:24.2	So anyway, without further ado, let's start this week's fly box with an email from
1:32.0	Ron from Portland, Maine.
1:35.8	Hope all is well.
1:36.8	I was hoping you could share how you personally rig up a leader in a variety of fishing situations.
1:42.1	I'm interested to hear what materials you use, floral or mono, the lengths of each materials
1:47.2	and the not you typically tie these materials together with when targeting, drought with
1:51.9	dries with nymphs with streamers and let's say big versus small water using a weight
1:56.2	forward floating line.
1:58.3	As a bit of offseason prep, I've been trying to dive deeper into effective leader construction
2:03.4	for a variety of fishing methods.
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