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.

Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being

recorded on June 17th, 2015 and have a special guest on today.

Our CEO, the CEO of the Orvis Company, Perk Perkins, who, as you know from Past Podcast, is a leader

and tip it geek, and he's also pretty geeky about Fly Lines.

So he asked me if he could come on and do a do a podcast on on choosing flylines and I said absolutely

So we're lucky enough to have him here with us today in the middle of a very busy schedule as you can imagine.

Also, before we begin the flybox,

I have a little public service announcement

and people are always asking me how can we help the

podcast how can we make sure the podcast stays on the air and all this stuff we want

to show our support because we enjoy the podcast well there's any one way you can

help me we have a project going on

that's been going on for a number of years called the a thousand orvous

thousand mile project our goal is to reconnect a thousand mile project. Our goal is to reconnect a thousand miles of tributaries to the main stems and the main the main benefit of that is to allow fish to enter salmonets to enter cold water tributaries to

spawn. That's where a lot of them spawned salmon, steelhead, and trout.

And if they're blocked by a culvert that's perched or otherwise blocked,

the fish can't get into these valuable spawning areas.

And it also sometimes brings adult fish into a smaller stream that wouldn't normally live there.

So it's great for the resource.

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