Is Fly Fishing Really Good for Your Mental Health? With Melissa Ceren
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
- If I break a section of a rod, why won't a section from a different rod fit it? Are the diameters different in different types of rods?
- Are there benefits to fishing nymphs without an indicator?
- When fishing, are you more likely to change the fly size up or down if the one you're using is not working?
- Am I missing some flexibility by not carrying two rods when wade fishing?
- What is the best way to fish for a trout that lives under a bridge?
- When I get a tangled mess I usually cut everything off and re-tie. Should I be carrying a safety pin to untangle my leader?
- I am having problems with drag when fishing straight upstream. Do you have any tips to help this?
- I keep foul-hooking small brook trout when using a dry dropper. Why does this happen and what can I do to avoid it?
- I accidentally dropped my fly box in the river. I don't see any rust on them, but should I throw all of them out?
- What is "attitude" when discussing the choice of dry flies?
- What is your current recommendation on the noise created by studded boots or metal wading staffs?
- I have gone on 8 saltwater fly-fishing trips and have been skunked on 6 of them. It's a combination of bad guides and bad weather. What can I do to avoid this?
- What is the best way of getting my fly off a branch if I don't want to wade in and spook the pool?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orbis fly fishing podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbauer and my |
| 0:16.2 | guess this week is Melissa Sarin Melissa works in kind of an intersection between mental health and fly fishing. |
| 0:27.8 | Melissa is a licensed therapist and she's also a fly fishing guide. |
| 0:33.6 | And the topic we're gonna discuss is, |
| 0:38.8 | is fly fishing always good for your mental health? |
| 0:42.3 | We know that it's we most of us |
| 0:44.5 | intuitively know it's pretty good for our mental health and we're out in nature |
| 0:48.1 | and we're we're constantly moving we're getting exercise we're getting away |
| 0:52.0 | from the daily grind and and so on and so we're getting exercise, we're getting away from the daily grind and so on and |
| 0:54.7 | so we're solving problems and so on. But is it always good for your mental health? |
| 0:58.7 | Are there are there times when it's not and are there ways that you can approach fly fishing so that you're |
| 1:06.0 | going to maximize your mental health benefit. So anyways it was a fun discussion. |
| 1:11.5 | I kind of played devil's Advocate a little bit and we had some fun with it and I hope you enjoy the interview. |
| 1:19.0 | But first, let's do the flybox. |
| 1:23.6 | So the flybox is where you ask me questions |
| 1:26.5 | and I try to answer them if I can. |
| 1:28.9 | So I read all of your questions. |
| 1:30.9 | I don't answer all of them, but I try to answer the ones that are relevant, I think, to the rest of the podcast listeners. |
| 1:39.0 | And the answers to those will help other people in there in a fly fishing journey and I think this is what makes this |
| 1:47.3 | podcast |
| 1:49.7 | so successful is is you is your questions and you guide me toward topics because we have this |
| 1:57.4 | interchange and you know when someone comes to me with an idea for a podcast I have a pretty good idea |
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