Fly vs Spin: Pros and Cons of Each

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

🗓️ 6 July 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's podcast, after a week on Cape Cod I'm prepared to tackle the subjetc of fly vs. spin, something I was reluctant to discuss before because I just have not used a spin rod much since I was a teenager. But we'll talk about the relative advantages of both methods of fishing, and when a diehard fly fisher might want a spin rod handy. In the short Fly Box topics this week, we further our discussion on releasing fish unharmed, where to position your rod when playing a fish, DT vs. WF lines, getting the fly line wrapped around the reel seat, and a few other goodies.

Transcript

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:14.6	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being recorded on June 26, 2012.
0:25.0	Sorry, we didn't have a podcast last week. I was on vacation with my family on Cape Cod and
0:32.0	yes, of course I did some fishing.
0:36.3	Which brings me to the topic of today's podcast, the main part of the podcast, something
0:40.9	that people have asked for in the past and I never really had any
0:45.0	interesting information or felt qualified to talk about it
0:49.0	but the subject of this week's podcast is fly versus spin and just a kind of a brief
0:56.8	summary on the differences between the two and when one might be more effective than the other and so on, dispelling some myths along the line, hopefully.
1:08.0	But first of all, let's go to the podcast, and yes, I was finally able to decipher the password of the new phone system and
1:16.4	how to negotiate how to navigate through it with some negotiation and so I got your call so let's listen to the first
1:27.6	call and the first call is from Matt from Pennsylvania.
1:34.0	Hey, Tom Rosenbauer, this is Matt Seymour calling from Coatesville, Pennsylvania, big fan.
1:41.0	Tom, last week, this past week, I fished in the Farmington River in Connecticut.
1:47.0	They had a good fortune to catch a couple of nice brown trout.
1:51.0	And I got them to the net fairly easily by laying the rod over after they were hooked, you know, kind of side to side.
2:01.0	And I thought that was the way you were supposed to do it until maybe the second day I was fishing.
2:07.0	I looked over and saw a guy hook one that looked like it was about 20 inches and he kept the rod straight up and down over his head as he brought the fish
2:15.9	toward him.
2:16.9	Is there any preferred way or what are the relative advantages or disadvantages of handling a rod in various positions as you bring a large fish
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