How to Plan a DIY Fishing Trip, with Joe Bibbo

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 August 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Joe Bibbo [32:10] has a great back story and is a wonderful storyteller himself. He's done a lot of DIY fishing, mainly from his home in the East to the Rocky Mountains and has some great advice on where to go for information as you plan your trip. He also has some wonderful advice on what not to do, based on mistakes he's made over the years. I get many questions from listeners about DIY trips so I am sure this podcast will be a popular one.

In the Fly Box this week, I had no phone calls to answer (hint, hint) but some good e-mail questions, including:

I get conflicting advice on how close I can get to fish when tightline nymphing. Can you give me some guidelines on how close I can approach them?
Any tricks for seeing small flies in low light?
I bought some Stimulators and see they have wire wraps on them. Can I fish these as wet flies?
I struggle to get a bite from river smallmouth bass in July and August and I could consistently catch them in spring. Any suggestions?
How can I avoid creek chubs in a small weedy stream when I want to target the larger brown trout?
Would it be a good idea to put a small length of sighter material between my fly line and my leader?
Any tips for solo fishing from a raft?
I have been wading with old neoprene waders and Crocs as wading shoes. Do you think I would benefit from modern waders and wading shoes?
I live in Great Lakes steelhead country but sometimes want to avoid the crowds during the winter and fish for smaller trout in inland streams. Do you have any advice for late fall and winter fishing in these streams?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.0	This is your host Tom O'Sebower, and my guest today is Joe Beboe.
0:19.3	And you may not have heard of Joe because Joe hasn't written any fly fishing books.
0:26.0	He doesn't have any videos on YouTube.
0:30.0	He doesn't have a blog that I know of.
0:33.0	Joe is a flyfisher and he has a great story to tell.
0:39.0	He's done a lot of DIY fishing and taking a lot of DIY trips for a reason that he'll get into on the
0:47.1	podcast but you know Joe tells a great story and he's got some really helpful tips on planning your own DIY
0:58.1	fishing trip.
0:59.1	A lot of times people in the industry like myself talk about exotic trips that are expensive
1:04.6	that not a lot of people can afford and and honestly although I do host some of these
1:12.4	exotic trips myself. I also, when I'm fishing on my own, I'm mostly a
1:17.6	DIY person and you know I don't, I don't, when I'm fishing on my own, I don't go to fancy lodges, I don't go to exotic destinations.
1:26.0	I like to fish close to home or I like to drive somewhere, sometimes take an airplane on fishing trips.
1:32.0	So I've gotten a lot of, I've gotten a lot of good
1:35.2	information from the podcast and I'm sure that if you if you do a lot of
1:41.4	DIY fishing and I do get a lot of DIY fishing.
1:43.0	And I do get a lot of questions from people about planning a trip,
1:48.0	planning a trip where to go and how to go about it and how to plan it.
1:51.0	Joe's got some great tips, so hope you enjoy the podcast.
1:58.1	But before we do the podcast, let's do the flybox.
2:01.8	And the flybox is where you ask me questions or you pass along a tip and I read them on the air and I'm only reading them on the air today because I didn't get any good phone calls or voice
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