Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,

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 author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being

recorded on March 13th Friday the 13th, 2015.

And before we go into the flybox today,

I wanted to tell you what's coming up.

It's an interview with the Orvis CEO, Perk Perkins, who was a leader

geek as I am. And so we're going to discuss leaders and leader philosophies and tying around

leaders and all kinds of geeky things so I hope you enjoy that. I know we get a lot

of questions about leaders here on the podcast so I'm

Hopeful that we'll answer some of your questions

Another piece of news, our summer fishing catalog is coming out April 1st.

Should be in the mail April 1st and there will be some new products in there and there also be some new products on the website.

Sometimes these mid-season introductions get lost in the shuffle and we all love our toys and looking at new toys.

So I just wanted to make you aware that we'll have a new pair waiting boots called the

access waiting boots, which are very comfortable, very durable rubber-soled waiting boots, probably the best

boots we've ever, what's the best waiting boots we've ever had.

And also we've got some new models of Recon rods. We've got some longer

longer rods, some 10 footers, and we also have some shorter brush rods, short

shorter, heavier line-sized rods for bass fishing and snook fishing and tight tarp and

fishing in the mangroves. Short heavy rods can be very good fish fighting tools and so I think you'll be

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