Keep 'em Wet: Best Practices for Catch and Release

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

🗓️ 8 May 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I tell a story about getting caught playing Hendrickson hooky by two owners of the Orvis Company. Plus various assorted Fly Box questions like keeping rainbows on the hook when they jump, how to remove flies from deep in a trout’s mouth, how Eastern and Western waters differ in early season, fly fishing alongside spin-fishing buddies—plus the main podcast, in which Paul Moinester of Keep ‘Em Wet and I talk about best practices for releasing fish.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing
0:15.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:21.3	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being
0:25.2	recorded on May 3rd 2016. A little bit later on in the show we have Paul
0:31.8	Moynister from Keep Him Wet.org and Paul and I are going to talk
0:38.0	about catch-or-release fishing. Paul was in town and I had been wanting to do
0:41.8	something on catch-or fishing to try to clear up some of the questions that you've had over the years as podcast listeners and since I had an expert here in town, I thought I would sit down with them.
0:54.3	So stay tuned for that.
0:56.8	But first, let's go to the flybox.
1:01.4	And the first question is an email from Joel from Maryland.
1:05.0	And I won't read Joel's entire letter, but I'll read part of it.
1:12.0	Following your podcast advice, I watch my fly. letter but I'll read part of it.
1:12.6	Following your podcast advice, I watched my fly for any drag, but it decided it was pretty
1:17.5	drag-free.
1:19.5	Joel was having trouble catching some fish that were taking blueing olives.
1:25.0	Then I remembered your other advice and went down to size on my blue
1:30.0	and success.
1:32.0	I started getting plenty of hits and brought in several
1:34.4	small browns. Now my question I try to be very careful in playing and handling
1:38.4	fish and try to release him quickly. About half of the trout though were hooked deeper in their throat, not in the jaw,
1:45.4	although I was able to unhook all of them and they all seemed to swim away well.
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