Hatches of the Catskills, with Evan Lavery

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

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week I was down in the Catskills and stopped in to chat with Evan Lavery of The Beaverkill Angler in Roscoe, New York. The topic of our podcast is hatches of the freestone rivers of the Catskills, in particular the Beaverkill and Willowemoc Creek. These are rivers rich with tradition and also rich with a diverse insect population--although they don't have the quantity of insects seen in the Catskill tailwaters like the Delaware, they have a more diverse population so you never know what you'll see. Plus, for the wading angler, these rivers don't have drift boats thus they can be more pleasant for fly fishers on foot. In the Fly Box this week, we have these questions and more: What leader should I use for pike and muskie? How do I fish for grayling in high mountain lakes? Do trout eat moths? What fly line is best for short casts? What indicators do you prefer? How do I tell the difference between a wild and stocked brown trout? Plus a harrowing tale of an "extreme angler"

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on May 10, 2019.
0:17.0	And a little bit later on in the show, I told you I'd be doing a whole bunch of remote
0:23.2	podcast because I'm going to be on the road working on a TV show most of the
0:29.9	spring and summer and part of the fall So I'm going to be interviewing some people
0:35.0	that I meet on the road
0:36.0	and I was down the Catskills this week
0:39.0	and interviewed Evan Labrie of Beaverkill Angler in Roscoe, New York and we're going to talk
0:46.4	about Catskill Hatches particularly on the Freestone rivers of the
0:49.7	Catskill's you hear a lot about the hatches on the branches of the Delaware and the
0:54.6	other tailwaters and the cat skills, but we're going to talk about hatches on the
0:58.3	Beaverkill and Willow Weymock, which are the more kind of historic
1:03.0	Freestone Stream.
1:04.0	So hope you enjoy that.
1:07.2	But first, we're gonna do the flybox.
1:10.1	And you can send a question into the flybox.
1:13.0	You can send an email to podcast at Orvis.com
1:17.0	and just include your question.
1:19.0	Or you can record a voice file and on your phone and email that to the
1:26.6	podcast mailbox which works a lot better than voicemail. I do still have a
1:30.3	voicemail available which is 802 362 8800 but the the voice files on
1:38.0	your phone if you do have a smartphone sound much better. So let's go on to the flybox. Here's an email from
1:48.8	John. I messaged you the other day about what leader to use for musky or pike.
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