Late Summer Smallmouth Tips, with Colby Trow

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week my guest is Colby Trow [38:08] of Mossy Creek Fly Fishing, one of the best smallmouth bass anglers I know. Colby talks about successful techniques in catching these critters in late summer, when they can be harder to catch than earlier in the season. The good news is that it's one of the best times to catch them on a surface fly like a popper or hair bug, which is always the most fun. In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions and tips from listeners: A listener who makes the point that it's quicker to land trout on light tippets with a Euro rod Can I fish carp flies with an indicator? Are treble hooks more harmful than single point barbless hooks? What do I do when trout take my hopper patterns deep? Should I leave the fly in them? I have trouble catching smallmouths in clear water. Any suggestions? Where do you store your leader between fishing trips? A tip from Sam, fishing manager at Orvis Houston, on catching redfish in dirty water What are the advantages and disadvantages in using a pedestal vise as opposed to a C-clamp? How do I choose which size hair stacker to use? How can I fish size 18-22 nymphs in four feet of fast water? A suggestion for using 7 1/2-foot leaders in small streams in the Driftless Region Can I put a 7-weight sinking line on my 5-weight rod? If I am catching trout in small mountain streams where the water is cold enough, do I need to worry about them moving downstream into warmer temperatures after I release them? How many phone calls and questions do you get per week? When I switch from Euro nymphing to my regular trout rod, I keep breaking off fish. Is this normal?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orderless Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host, Tom, who is an
0:12.8	hour, and this week my guest is Colby Tro of Mossy Creek Fly Fishing, and we're going
0:20.4	to be talking about late summer, early fall, smallmouth bass fishing. Some of the most
0:26.4	exciting fishing that you can do in fresh water this time of year. And the good news is that a lot
0:33.3	of it is surface fishing. This is a great time to get out there with a hair bug or a popping bug
0:40.0	and catch smallmouth. And Colby does a lot of it and he catches a lot of big ones. So I'm sure we're
0:46.2	all going to get some great tips in this podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
0:51.5	Let's answer a few questions first on the fly box. And if you have a question for the fly box,
0:57.7	you can send to me at podcastatorvest.com. Can you either just type your question or comment or
1:05.4	complaint or criticism in an email or you can attach a voice file and I might read it on the air.
1:14.0	So anyway, let's go to our first question, which is an email from Tom from Connecticut.
1:21.3	In your last podcast, a self-proclaimed novice posted a comment about an email from a previous
1:27.3	podcast. The comment this person made was somewhat judgmental about an angler who had mentioned
1:32.7	that he had fished a two-weight with six X and caught fish up to 22 inches. The novice
1:37.9	angler was venting that such a practice would exhaust the fish and should not be done.
1:42.8	I eagerly waited your response. However, it was the complete opposite of what I thought you would
1:48.2	say. You agreed that such a practice is really not a good idea. So I will come to the defense of
1:54.4	the angler in question. I know this is not news to you, but I just want to put it out there.
1:59.5	This practice in my experience causes less stress on the fish and allows me to get my fish in very
2:05.4	quickly. The angler was discussing how he tight-line nymphed and then switched to dry dropper. He
2:11.1	fished dry dropper with the entire line off the water. Both of these techniques put you within 20
2:16.4	feet of the fish in most cases. These techniques will often be done with a 10-foot or longer rod.
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