How to Become a Fly-Fishing Guide, with Joe Hebler

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

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

[Interview starts at 55:00]

This week, Joe Hebler of the Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, Colorado, answers the question "How do I become a fishing guide?" Whether you are graduating from high school or college, or in another career looking to escape daily stresses and an unsatisfying job, Joe gives a great road map on what steps to take to successfully land a job in this competitive field. And if you aren't interested in becoming a guide, Joe also gives some great tips on current fishing conditions on Colorado streams.

In the Fly Box this week, we answer some questions, share some tips from a listener, and alert people to a threat on one of Pennsylvania's finest trout streams.

Should I buy a 4-weight or a 5-weight rod for trout?
Whatever happened to that little barbed thingee that goes into the end of a fly line to attach a leader?
An alert about a proposal by a meat packing plant to withdraw 700,000 gallons of water a day from the springs that feed the headwaters of Fishing Creek.
Are wet flies a legitimate strategy when you have trout rising downstream of your position?
How do I get a large trout close to my net if my leader is long?
What could I have done to catch a smallmouth bass in deep, clear, swirly water?
What mouse pattern is best and how should I fish it?
A great list of tips on why starting out in a small stream will build your skills for fishing tougher, more technical waters later.
My father wants to remove the brush along our stream to make it easier to cast and for my kids to splash in the river. Should I try to talk him out of it?
What is the best way to remove wind knots from my leader?
A listener asks me about my top 3 places to fish
I foul hooked a brook trout in the belly but it was only a flseh wound. Do you think the fish will survive?
Should I match my leader length to my rod length?

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to be. Hi and
0:15.0	welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:19.0	This is your host Tom Roggenbauer
0:21.0	and a little bit later in the show in my interview,
0:26.0	we're going to be talking to Joe Hebbler of Blue Cool
0:30.0	Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, Colorado.
0:35.0	And the reason I'm talking to Joe
0:38.0	is that I get frequent questions about becoming a guy.
0:44.6	And typically it's a 17 year old in high school
0:49.5	or somebody who was just getting ready to graduate from college and really wants to be a fishing guide and ask my advice on what should I do?
0:58.5	Well, I don't really know. I have a, usually I have a couple suggestions, but I really don't know because I've never been a guide I don't have the chops to be a guide and so I thought it would be great to talk to Joe because Joe's been guiding for about a year.
1:16.0	Joe had another career in another industry, but Joe has some very, very thoughtful ideas about how to approach the whole guide as a living deal and really
1:29.8	putting together a marketing plan for yourself if you really want to become a guide.
1:35.1	So I think it's a great interview and if you're not interested in becoming a guide,
1:41.6	Joe also has some great tips on fishing Colorado tailwaters
1:46.0	this season so I think I hope you'll enjoy it either way.
1:52.0	But first let's either way.
1:58.0	But first, let's answer some questions, or try to answer some questions. And if you have some questions you want to ask the podcast,
2:02.0	send me an email at podcast at orvis.com. You can
2:07.6	either attach a voice file and maybe I'll read your question on the air or you can just type it in the body of your email.
2:14.7	And don't forget if you're not already sick of hearing my voice, the
2:19.1	Harvest Guide to Fly Fishing season two
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