Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's a claimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer. This is podcast number one of the

Orvis fly fishing guide and I thought it might be appropriate to begin this series with the podcast on reading the water or reading trout streams because it's something that people seem to seem to have problems with initially and don't seem to understand or seem to

think that they need more experience or more knowledge about reading the water.

They walked down to the river and they're faced with some moving water

and a bunch of rocks and they say, what's next? They don't know, they have problems figuring

out where the trout are and what they should do and so on.

And I find that a lot of novices in particular worry about entomology and learning the insects.

And I always tell people that instead of worrying so much about learning about bugs,

learn a little bit more about trout because trout are a lot more interesting than bugs.

And that's what we're out there to do is catch trout, not catch bugs unless you want to go around

an insect not all day long and some people do that.

But trout are a lot more interesting than bugs. The problem is that

trout are more difficult to study. There is tough to find books or magazine articles

about trout except in the scientific journals, particularly trout feeding

behavior.

And it's a lot easier to study bugs.

There's a lot of articles and books on bugs, and you can turn over rocks and poke and prod the bugs and put them in a jar of alcohol.

But trout are more difficult.

And the way you learn about trout behavior is to some degree in books. I've written a couple about reading the water and

and they include quite a bit about trout feeding behavior but a lot of it still

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