Great tips on canoe fishing, with Perk Perkins

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

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

I did a podcast a few weeks ago that was billed as a canoe and kayak podcast but my guest and I spent a lot of time on Kayaks and not much on canoes. Some of you took me to task and asked for more information on fly fishing from canoes, so I asked retired president and CEO of Orvis, Perk Perkins [49:06], to share his tips with us. Perk fishes from a canoe more than anyone else I know, and has been using these craft all his life. He gives us some great tips on making fly fishing from a canoe more fun and productive.

In the fly box this week, we have some fascinating questions from listeners, including:

Should l I use a double taper or weight forward line on my small stream rod?

If you fish barbless dry flies with a dry/dropper rig, won't the knot slip off the hook?

What can I do to lessen my shoulder involvement in casting?

I have severe arthritis in my right shoulder. Should I learn to cast left-handed?

Do tippet rings make tying on a dropper less fussy? Won't the fish see a tippet ring?

What is your opinion on attractor patterns?

What do you think of UV resins and tying materials?

If I want to fish a leader with a light butt section, what diameter should the permanent loop be on my fly line? The permanent loop on my fly line got damaged.

My fly line says "cold to moderate temperatures". Can I also use this line for fishing for bass during the summer?

Do flies need to be perfect and symmetrical? I

s road kill of any use in fly tying?

We were catching hickory shad on spoons we made using Krystal Flash and UV resin. People told us we weren't fly fishing.

What's your take on flies that aren't really "flies"?

How are fly rods most often broken?

What rod do I need to make my mono rig work better?

I see many color variations in pre-made dubbing blends, for instance one March Brown dubbing is brown and another one is light tan. Do insects vary in color? Does color even make a difference?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.1	This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and this week we're going to be talking about canoes.
0:21.4	I did a podcast a few weeks ago on it was billed as canoes and kayaks but we really concentrated
0:29.0	too much on kayaks and I got rightfully criticized for not spending enough time talking about canoes.
0:38.7	So I promised that I would do a complete cano podcast how to fish from canoes tips from
0:45.0	fishing from canoes and I was scratching my head trying to think of who I should contact
0:52.7	and then suddenly hit me I should have known this perk perk ends who used to be my boss and was
0:59.7	the president and CEO of Orvis he's not retired loves to fish from canoes and has a lifetime
1:07.6	of fly fishing from a canoe so I called perk since he's retired and he's got lots of time on his
1:14.9	hands and he agreed to do a podcast on canoes and there are some really good tips in here whether
1:21.0	you fish a canoe in still water or moving water I think you're going to get some really cool tips
1:27.2	from this podcast so apologies to those canoe anglers out there for not doing this in the past but
1:34.4	now hopefully I've corrected the situation. Now a couple of housekeeping things one is that I do
1:46.7	look at reviews on iTunes of the podcast and there are many fresh get a little stale there on
1:53.4	reviews on iTunes so they're important to us and so if you like the podcast or if you don't
2:01.1	you know please leave a review on just going to iTunes and leave a review on the podcast it's
2:08.2	it's important us I want to make this podcast what you want it to be I want to answer the
2:15.2	questions you want answered I want to help help you demystify your fly fishing life so I do
2:24.9	read those reviews and I read all the podcast email but I also read the reviews so and it does
2:31.2	help us and one other housekeeping event I get requests occasionally to guide people and I don't
2:43.2	guide I'm I'm not a good guide I wouldn't be a good guide I like to fish too much
2:49.6	but I do host trips and I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be hosting a number of
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