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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

From Phones to Drones- Taking Better Pictures on the Water

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Being a camera gear geek, I was delighted to interview Chris Niccolls (interview starts at 47:16) of DP Review TV. (If you are also a camera geek, you probably read DP Review regularly.) Chis is a photography teacher as well as a video star, has worked in camera shops, and currently works in a fly shop in Calgary. In the interview, he gives some fantastic tips on how to take better fish and fishing pictures in both the video and still formats. He also suggests some brands and models of phones, cameras, and drones that he feels are best suited for fishing photography. I know I learned a whole mess of new tricks for taking better fishing pictures, and I am sure you will, too.

In the Fly Box, we cover plenty of topics that may help answer questions you have had about fly fishing:

  • Should I get a 6½-foot or 7½-foot rod for small streams? What weight line is best, and should I get a Double Taper or Weight Forward line?
  • Do you carry a small seine with you when trout fishing?
  • How many wind knots should I expect in a day of fishing?
  • I fish for salmon and stripers. Should I get a full-sinking or sinking-tip line in addition to my floating line?
  • How do you travel with fly rods? Do you carry them on or check them?
  • Would a 12-foot, 6-inch two-handed rod be OK for both stripers and smallmouths?
  • What do you think offly clips?
  • Should I use nylon or Fluorocarbon tippets for dries and nymphs?
  • I have lost my passion for fly fishing. Does this ever happen to you?
  • A suggestion from a listener on targeting white bass in Texas on their spawning runs
  • If I only had one type of line for stripers, bass, and pike because of expense, what line should I buy?
  • Do you have any suggestions for catching stocked trout when the spin guys are catching tons of them using corn as bait?
  • Is there a big difference between the Battenkill IV Spey and Battenkill IV disc?
  • Is there an advantage to using a rotary vise?
  • How long does it take trout eggs to hatch?

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. You notice I did say the Orvis Fly Fishing

0:22.0

Podcast because we changed the name. The reason we changed the name

0:26.4

is back when we first started this podcast about 10 years ago, I had a book out called The Orvis Fly Fishing Guy. It's still out there, it's in its third

0:37.6

third version, third iteration. But back then we didn't know how well the podcast was going to be accepted and people knew me from my book.

0:47.0

So we named the podcast after my book.

0:50.0

But now the podcast is a lot more popular than my book because it's free probably and

0:56.7

we decided it's time to change the name I've had people tell me before that they haven't listened to the

1:04.2

podcast because they're not a guide and people thought it was a podcast for guide.

1:07.8

So definitely not a podcast for guides. It's a podcast for everyone that is

1:12.2

interested in fly fishing.

1:14.1

And so we changed the name.

1:17.3

Last week that did cause a few problems.

1:21.4

When we changed the name in the feed it did something behind the scenes that I don't

1:27.2

totally understand or I don't understand at all but it screwed up our feed for a while. We had to make some changes. Some of you may have gotten Reed

1:36.2

Bryant's Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcasts by a mistake, and I apologize for that if you weren't

1:42.2

interested in that.

1:43.9

It's a great podcast, but if you're not into hunting and shooting,

1:46.4

then probably didn't want it.

1:48.4

But anyway, we should be back on track now

1:50.8

and the feed should be working. One of the issues right now is that

1:55.9

you'll only find podcasts back five years on iTunes. We have 10 years worth, 10 plus years worth of

2:03.2

podcast out there. They are not archived on iTunes at this moment. We're

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