Lessons from the Missouri with Chris Strainer
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast we talk to Chris Strainer, owner of Crosscurrents Fly Shop in Craig, Montana. Chris fills us in on how to beat both the heat and the crowds on one of our most popular trout rivers, the Missouri. He has some great tips on this, as well as suggestions for fall fishing opportunities when the crowds are gone and the weather is cooler.
In the Fly Box we talk about mending with a dry fly, fishing emergers and wets upstream, prospecting with smaller flies, losing fish when they jump, protecting rubber legs on crab patterns, casting fatigue, big fish on light rods…and many other crazy topics.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being recorded on August 6th. |
| 0:30.0 | 2015 and sorry you haven't had a podcast in a few weeks at summertime you know vacations |
| 0:36.3 | and chores and travel and all those kinds of things so I'm sure you've been busy outside as well so you |
| 0:45.5 | probably haven't missed me at all. |
| 0:47.3 | A little later on the show we've got an interview with Chris Drainer from Cross Current's Fly Shop and we're going to talk about the Missouri River in particular late summer and fall and fishing conditions there and what you can do to beat the heat and beat the crowd. |
| 1:02.8 | So Chris is a long time friend and a great guide and |
| 1:06.2 | fly shop owner and I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 1:10.1 | But first, the flybox, where we answer some short questions and let's start off with a phone call this week |
| 1:16.0 | Hey, what's up there Tom this is Joe in Minneapolis. |
| 1:20.0 | It's my first summer fly fishing started off great, but as of lately it's definitely been testing my patience. |
| 1:27.0 | Luckily I just enjoy being out in nature and in a stream, so patience is something I have plenty of. |
| 1:35.0 | I did have a question regarding something |
| 1:38.1 | I've run into a couple of times now. |
| 1:42.0 | I've had a couple of situations where I thought Trout Upstreaming me were taking |
| 1:46.8 | emergers and I'm pretty sure they were just below the surface and a lot of |
| 1:51.8 | our streams out here are very small and very brushy and getting upstream |
| 1:57.4 | that without spooking them can be pretty difficult. You know I tried throwing |
| 2:01.9 | on some terrestrial's in the mid-summertime and some other dries |
| 2:07.0 | And they wouldn't take them but they keep rising so I'm almost certain they're taking mergers |
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