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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 116 minutes
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In our campaign to take pressure off our over-stressed trout rivers during this hot, dry summer I figured a great topic would be how to find carp fishing spots. Not every place that holds carp is conducive to fly fishing, but when you find the right spot, you'll find endlessly fascinating opportunities to catch these often difficult gamefish that will test your drag like no other freshwater fish (besides steelhead and salmon). So I enlisted Dan Frasier [46:00] to talk about how to find the best carp spots, when and where to target them, how to present the fly, and how to determine when a carp has eaten your fly. Carp are tough and resilient and you don't need to worry about hurting them, no matter how warm the water temperature. Next to trout, they're the most interesting fish to chase in fresh water and the closest you'll get to saltwater flats fishing without leaving home. In the Fly Box this week, as usual we have some great questions and tips from listeners, including: Do certain trout get acclimated to either very high or low temperature regimes? Why do I foul hook a lot of fish when Euro nymphing? Why does my Euro rig break above the tippet ring? A casting tip using the analogy of a tomato on a stick Does Orvis have a secret warehouse full of older discontinued products? How can I keep track of tiny emergers in the surface film? Do you recommend felt soles or rubber with cleats for wading boots? When fishing for panfish, does having an indicator on the leader hinder my presentation when I strip the fly? Why are my surgeon's knots breaking when using 10-pound test for panfish? What is the difference between regular CDC and CDC puffs? Some tips from a listener on traveling with fly-fishing gear Is it OK to hold a fly rod on the blank above the grip when playing a large fish? A tip from a listener on using a lint roller to keep the fly-tying desk clean Is there any reason to put fly dressing on a yarn strike indicator? Will my freshwater reels work OK in salt water? Why do my foam dry flies sometimes land upside-down?
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0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
0:11.0 | This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and this week I have a podcast that I really enjoyed |
0:17.7 | doing. |
0:18.7 | Of course I enjoyed doing all of them but this one is with my buddy Dan Frazier who is |
0:25.7 | a real carp, aficionado, an expert and I'm not an expert carp angler but I'm an |
0:33.7 | aficionado and I love it and I find it to be endlessly fascinating and if you're |
0:40.9 | new to carp fishing or you want to try it because it's challenging and it's exciting |
0:47.5 | and it's fun and you can do it almost anywhere I think you'll enjoy this. |
0:53.2 | Then goes through how to find a place to fish for them because you need to find a special |
1:01.2 | place where you can target them on a fly rod and then how to present the fly and how |
1:08.1 | to tell when they take the fly and just a very good overview of getting started in carp |
1:18.8 | fishing. |
1:19.8 | I hope you enjoyed. |
1:20.8 | I certainly enjoyed talking to Dan and now we have the fly box and if you have a question |
1:29.3 | for the fly box that you'd like me to try to answer, you'd like to try to stump me, |
1:34.6 | you can send it to podcast at orvis.com. |
1:38.1 | You can either put your question right in the email or you can attach a voice file and |
1:45.1 | also comments, critiques, tips that you want to share with other podcast listeners. |
1:52.8 | If I feel your tip is worth sharing and that will benefit people then I'll certainly |
1:57.7 | read it on the air because this is your podcast and it's a group effort and I appreciate |
2:05.1 | all your feedback and your questions and your tips so without further ado let's do |
2:11.9 | the fly box and we'll start with an email. |
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