More on Steelhead and Demystifying Two-Handed Casting with Jason Cotta
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2015
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast, we continue our series on steelhead fishing by going into even more detail on demystifying the terms used in two-handed casting, when to use a Spey or a switch rod, and lots of detail on lines for two-handed rods, because it is a whole new world with new vocabulary. But take heart—Jason Cotta, fishing manager of Orvis Bellevue, walks us through the details and explains them very clearly. He also gives some solid tips for the novice steelhead angler. In The Fly Box, we cover dealing with road kill squirrel’s tail, small stream rods, saltwater fly lines, difficult albies in shallow water, fly pattern trademarks and royalties, fish leverage on various types of hooks, the life of nylon tippet, bobber alternatives, and the effects of drought on small stream trout populations.
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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. |
| 0:21.0 | I and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on December 2nd, 2015. |
| 0:30.0 | Must not have had enough coffee this morning. |
| 0:35.0 | Later on the show, we've got yet another Steelhead podcast, |
| 0:40.0 | this one on West Coast Steelheading and a lot about trying to again unravel the mysteries of steelhead tackle selection for two-handed fishing |
| 0:51.5 | which can be confusing and tricky and doesn't have to be. |
| 0:58.7 | So we'll get into that later with Jason Kata from the Orvis store in Bellevue, Washington. |
| 1:08.0 | But let's start with the flybox. |
| 1:12.1 | And the first one is an email first question is an email |
| 1:16.0 | from Aiden Leach from Des Moines, Iowa. It says I have a question about the life |
| 1:21.8 | of nylon tippet. |
| 1:23.0 | I've heard you talk about it on another episode of the podcast saying you buy a new nylon |
| 1:27.9 | tipet every year. That's correct. We've said that a number of times. |
| 1:31.0 | Just ordered some oarvison Tippet from 40 |
| 1:33.7 | pound all the way down to 4X to practice tying my own leaders. It was on sale and |
| 1:37.6 | it's something I've been wanting to learn. After I ordered it I was excited |
| 1:41.8 | and told my fishing buddy about my new purchase and he reminded me of the short life of nylon tippet and that maybe I was getting it on sale because it's older and won't be good for much longer. |
| 1:51.6 | Is this the case? Did I just buy a bunch of spools of |
| 1:55.1 | tip but that won't be good through next year? No, that's not correct. Aan, the reason that the Tippet is on sale is because and this is top secret so don't tell anybody |
| 2:12.0 | Beyond you podcast listeners we have a new Tippett material coming out in January that's some |
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