Getting a friend into fly fishing, with Charlie Berens and Adam Greuel
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast is fun to listen to, even if you don’t need any tips on how to get a friend into fly fishing. Charlie Berens is a talented writer comedian with a midwestern flair (check out his You Tube videos) and Adam Greuel is a musician with the band “Horseshoes and Hand Grenades” and also has a number of solo albums. Adam recently introduced Charlie to fly fishing and their experiences are both valuable and funny [42:20].
As a bonus, we’ve included a song they did together at the end of the podcast.
In The Fly Box this week, we have some great questions and tips from listeners, including:
Sometimes I see trout from a bridge, other times I don’t. Is this unusual and why?
What is the difference between a $100 fly rod and a $1000 fly rod?
A suggestion on how to arrange your flies and droppers to lessen tangles
A suggestion on how to instill better etiquette on our waters I keep losing fish once they are hooked.
Do I need a better hook-setting strategy?
A great suggestion from a listener on how to tie a weedless bass fly—and techniques for fishing it.
If you find nothing is working for you on a trout stream, what do you do?
What is the best way to fish plunge pools on small streams?
What is the difference between a slow rejection to a fly and a splashy one, and what can I do when a trout rejects my fly?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and this week I have two guests in my interview which |
| 0:20.8 | I don't normally do but in this case it was very appropriate. |
| 0:25.2 | I have Charlie Barons and Adam Gruel on the podcast and they're a team who sometimes produce |
| 0:36.4 | albums together but Charlie is an award-winning author and also comedian. |
| 0:43.4 | You may have seen his videos on YouTube and if you haven't seen them the one about the |
| 0:50.2 | extended warranty on his car is hilarious. |
| 0:54.0 | They're both Wisconsin boys and Adam is a world-class musician, he's with the band Horses |
| 1:00.5 | and hand grenades and also does some solo work himself and so they're two very talented |
| 1:06.2 | individuals and Adam recently got Charlie into fly fishing and they're talking about their |
| 1:12.0 | experiences of getting a friend into fly fishing so they're going to offer their suggestions |
| 1:20.6 | on how to get a friend into fly fishing. |
| 1:23.8 | It's some of it's serious and some of it's not so serious so I hope you enjoy it and then |
| 1:30.2 | we'll end up with a piece of music that they did together so I hope you enjoy it a little |
| 1:36.5 | bit different podcast this week. |
| 1:39.5 | But first the fly box as always and if you have a question for me or a comment or a suggestion |
| 1:48.8 | you can send me an email at podcast at orvis.com. |
| 1:53.9 | I may read your question on the air and I might not but I do read them all I don't just |
| 1:59.6 | read them all on the air because I get a lot of them and some of them are redundant |
| 2:03.4 | with things I've done before. |
| 2:05.5 | Anyway here we go the first question is from Ken from Buffalo, New York and it's an |
| 2:14.0 | email. |
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