Saving rivers, with Western Rivers Conservancy's Sue Doroff

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast is a recording of a live interview I did with Sue Doroff [48:56], co-founder and outgoing president of The Western Rivers Conservancy, which does amazing work throughout the West by buying valuable riparian land, making the surrounding habitat more natural and resilient, and enhancing public access to many of our important trout, salmon, and steelhead rivers. You'll learn how Western Rivers finds these areas, the financial model for how they do this, and how most are eventually transferred into public ownership. It's fascinating story of how a small organization punches well above its weight.

In the Fly Box this week, we have lots of questions and valuable tips from listeners, including:

How to use forceps to smooth down weighting wire

How to easily reverse your tying thread using a dubbing needle

How do I get deer hair to behave?

Any tips for attaching eyes to Game Changers?

Why can I catch trout from tiny streams on dry flies but not on nymphs?

Advice on the differences between Helios and Recon rods

How do I get into commercial fly tying?

How far do stocked trout travel?

Can I catch a carp on my 8 ½ foot 5 weight rod?

Can I use split shot with streamers?

Advice on a fiberglass rod for bass and panfish

Do I need to adjust water type or tactics for browns vs. rainbows?

A great tip from a listener on how to avoid losing beads and hooks under your tying table

What should a non-angler do when going fishing with a fly fisher?

How can I prevent losing fish on size 24 flies? Should I keep the barbs on?

Does how you tie a clinch knot have any bearing on how it rides in the water?

A listener suggestion for another great writer of fly-fishing essays

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbauer and this week my guest is Sue Doroff
0:19.2	who is the outgoing president of Western Rivers Conservancy.
0:24.3	And Sue and I did a question and answer live in San Francisco last month.
0:30.6	And I thought I would share it with you because it really really tells you about the work
0:36.8	that the Western Rivers Conservancy is doing and the the fascinating and efficient way that they are working to protect rivers,
0:48.0	protect the river ecosystem and riparian zones and also preserving public access and in some cases gaining
0:56.6	public access where there was none before. So it's a it's a great organization.
1:01.4	I hope you enjoy this live podcast or not live, but it was live when we did it with a real studio audience.
1:10.0	And I think you'll learn a lot about the great work that they do and hopefully you'll be inspired to support this group.
1:21.0	And before we get into the flybox, I just wanted to announce a new product that you may or may not have seen because it just went live very, very recently on the Orvis website.
1:34.1	And that is the new and improved and updated
1:38.8	Batten Kill Reals.
1:40.8	I was sitting in Sean Combs' office the other day the Rodin Reel designer and I picked up a reel that I hadn't seen before and I was playing with it and it felt really good. It looked sexy and it sounded really great and I said what what reel is this he said oh that's the new
1:55.6	bat and kill well I'm a I'm a mirage kind of guy for my reels I all my reels are either mirages or CFOs because they're the best and because my price is a little bit better than yours and I appreciate that they're 100% made in
2:17.0	USA but you know if you don't have the money to spend on a mirage or a CFO, the Batenkill Reals are an incredible value.
2:27.6	They're beautiful reels, they're rugged, they look nice, they feel smooth and the new ones are updated. They've got
2:36.3	tighter tolerances, they're smoother, more efficient and the look of the real is really really nice you know on your on your on your
2:49.8	good rod a bat and kill reel will really dress it up a bit. And also, they're available in some cool
2:58.4	colors. They're available in copper, black, and olive. So they're a nice compliment to your real.
3:05.3	And they're available in both a disc version
3:08.7	and a click and Paul version.
3:10.3	So if you're more traditionalists and you like a click and Paul you can get that if you need the power of a disc drag you can get that
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