More Winter Fishing Tips, with Rachel Leinweber
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
My guest this week is Rachel Leinweber [39:38], general manager of The Angler's Covey fly shop in Colorado Springs. One in a series of podcasts about winter fly-fishing tips, Rachael has some great ones for us, and it's been interesting to see how each guide we've talked to has a slightly different take on effective winter tactics.
In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions and tips:
Is there an easier way to balance a fly rod than buying a heavier reel?
How can I get my parents to approve of my fly-fishing passion?
When fishing large streams, and making casts too long for a roll cast, how do you get your fly out without catching trees and bushes?
Do ducks and muskrats and beavers spook trout?
Will the techniques I have learned on my local tailwaters in Utah translate to freestone (non-tailwater) rivers in Wyoming?
Can I use BigEye dry flies as sliding indicators on a dry-dropper rig?
How can I tell a wild from a hatchery fish?
Why did trout take my indicator and ignore my nymphs?
A tip that sometimes catching a trout from a pool does not spook the rest of them.
Why don't manufacturers put handles on both sides of a fly reel?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbauer and today's guest is Rachel |
| 0:17.8 | Line Weber who is the manager of Anglers Covey Fly Shop in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 0:28.0 | And this is one in a series of winter fly fishing podcasts we've been doing and just like all the other guests I've had Rachel has a little bit different take on what to do during the winter. She's in southern Colorado and you |
| 0:46.4 | may have noticed I've done a couple of winter fly fishing podcasts in |
| 0:49.6 | Colorado. Well Colorado my, is kind of winter fly fishing central. I mean, it's where a lot of it's done. They have great tail water, so they have stable water temperatures during the winter the weather is |
| 1:05.8 | often relatively decent compared to what we have in the eastern United States |
| 1:11.4 | they have a lot more sun and a lot more warmer winter |
| 1:14.7 | days than we tend to have here in the east. So it's a it's a great place for |
| 1:20.2 | winter fly fishing and Rachel is in more in southern Colorado so a little bit |
| 1:25.2 | different conditions but she has one especially useful tip for keeping your feet warm, which is something that I'm always |
| 1:37.6 | interested in having suffered from cold feet for many years. |
| 1:42.5 | So, and lots of other good tips. |
| 1:44.5 | So stay tuned for the interview with Rachel Line Webber. |
| 1:50.7 | But first, let's do the flybox where you get to ask me questions and sometimes I answer them. |
| 1:59.0 | If you have a question for the flybox, you can send it to me at podcast at Orvis.com. |
| 2:07.2 | You can include your question in an email or you can attach a voice file that you record on your phone. |
| 2:15.0 | And please try not to record your voice file when you're driving in the car because the |
| 2:22.2 | sound quality isn't that good and I don't |
| 2:24.1 | want to subject people here to substandard sound quality if I can. |
| 2:31.1 | So anyway, let's do the fly box. First question is from Ron from |
| 2:39.7 | Colorado. New to fly fishing and tying, but I've been listening to your podcast during my workouts. |
| 2:45.0 | Euro-Nifing sounds interesting to me, |
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