Part two of Young People and Fly Fishing, with Lukas Draugelis

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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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Anyone involved in the world of fly fishing knows that young people are getting involved at a rate greater than any time in its history. Why? What do they want out of fly fishing, why does it appeal to them, and what do they see as the future of fly fishing? This is Part two of a podcast series where I interview young people about these questions, and this week my guest is a college student, Lukas Draugelis [37:14], president of the University of Vermont Fly-fishing Club—a very vibrant organization.

In the Fly Box this week we some great questions, as well as a bit of humor, including:

I get my fly line, rod tip, net, and flies stuck in trees and bushes, sometimes at the same time. Does this happen to anyone else?

How do bursts of rain and muggy days affect fly fishing? How about barometric pressure?

I have never seen a good hatch on a river. What kinds of environmental cues trigger a hatch?

What grain weight should I put on a fiberglass rod that calls for a 5/6 line?

What does the term “boat rod” mean in fly fishing?

I fish a wild trout stream with numerous small fish with the biggest around 14 inches.

How many and what size can I safely harvest?

Any tips on how to make my first casts in a pool as good as the ones I may 15 minutes later when I am “warmed up”?

How can I avoid foul hooking fish, and am I killing fish that I foul hook?

What does a fish sound like when it is spooked?

If I came fly fishing with you on small streams, what rod, leader, and flies would you be using?

Is there a good way to make an adjustable dropper on a dry/dropper rig?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer.
0:16.0	And this week the podcast is part two of two in a series that I wanted to do about young
0:26.8	people in fly fishing. You know, it's interesting. I think I know a little bit about the
0:33.0	fly fishing world and the fly fishing market and what motivates people. But a local high school
0:41.2	teacher and I started a fly fishing club. And this is, you know, in Vermont where we're surrounded
0:46.4	by trout waters and we put up signs and posters and sent out emails and we had one student come
1:00.4	to the first meeting and we tried a second meeting and tried to cajole some other students and we got
1:09.5	two students and then we had a third meeting and nobody showed up. So obviously we're doing something
1:18.8	wrong and at the same, about the same point in time I went up to the University of Vermont to do
1:28.1	a presentation for the UVM Fly Fishing Club and the room was filled. It was one of the most engaged
1:37.2	and enthusiastic audiences I've ever had. Nobody once took out their phone and and scrolled through
1:46.3	their phone. They asked great questions we spent about an hour and a half after the presentation
1:52.0	just doing question and answer stuff. And so I've kind of realized that I don't really know
1:58.4	what motivates young people to get into fly fishing and I'm curious. I want to learn about,
2:05.0	because it's it's a lot different today. Learning fly fishing then it was around, you know,
2:10.6	55 years ago when I first started trying to teach myself fly fishing. So this is part two. I guess
2:17.7	this week is Lucas Dugallis. Lucas is the, I think he's the president of the UVM Fly Fishing Club. He's
2:24.8	the one who first contacted me about speaking at the club. And anyway, Lucas is not in the industry,
2:31.3	not involved as a guide or an outfit or anything else, doesn't work in a fly shop. Just Lucas is a college
2:37.9	student who is just wild about fly fishing as are his his compatriots in in the fly fishing club.
2:48.8	So I wanted to talk to just someone who's really wasn't exposed at an early age to fly fishing and
2:55.7	just see what intrigued Lucas and what we can learn from from what people are what young people
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