How Orvis Designs Fly Rods, with Shawn "Diddy" Combs

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

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week we get a special peak behind the curtain about how fly rods are developed. How long does it take to design a fly rod? How many prototypes are built? How are they tested? How are materials selected? And where do the ideas come from? Shawn Combs takes us into the depths of the Orvis skunkworks and tells us a few secrets (and withholds just as many) about how his team of engineers and technicians develop Orvis fly rods—specifically the new Helios 3 series. In the Fly Box this week, we talk about fishing emergers subsurface, the perils of using the wrong super glue on casting cuts, how long to let a bass popper sit, water temperature guiidelines for trout, fly fishing for crappies, a tip on keeping the trailing hook of a tandem out of the way when tying, leader lengths for stocked trout ponds, species-specific leaders, correct water depth for setting indicators, and how to fish multiple-fly rigs when the flies are barbless.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Reed Bryant, host of the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast.
0:04.0	If you're a bird hunter, clay shooter, or a gun dog enthusiast, you should check on my show.
0:09.6	Look up the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast podcast on iTunes and subscribe today.
0:16.9	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenberg,
0:22.0	bringing you tips, tricks, and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water.
0:27.0	Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:36.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide podcast.
0:39.0	This podcast is being recorded on November 17th, 2017.
0:44.2	And a little bit later on, we'll be giving you a peek behind the curtains
0:48.7	about how fly rods are developed, where they come from,
0:51.8	how they're developed, how many prototypes we make,
0:54.6	all that cool stuff that you might not hear about in traditional media.
0:59.5	So I hope you'll find that interesting.
1:03.0	And let's start out on the flybox
1:06.2	with a phone call this week.
1:09.6	Hi, Tom.
1:10.4	This is George from Charlotte, North Carolina, originally from New York.
1:14.0	I just had a couple of questions and a comment on a recent podcast.
1:20.0	The podcast you did about mousing with Joe Kramelli was absolutely wonderful.
1:25.0	I will say, however, that I have visions of hordes of individuals coming up from the city to try and fish the local streams up there.
1:35.0	And so I'm asking that you destroy that tape, remove it from the archives, or at a minimum,
1:42.0	direct the people to go up to Michigan where I believe Mousing originated.
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