Seasons of the Striper, with Bill Sisson

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

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bill Sisson [27:29] is the founding editor of Angler's Journal magazine and his recently published book, Seasons of the Striper, is an elegant pictorial love letter to striped bass fishing. Bill has seen many changes in the striped bass fishery over the years, and his family goes back for generations of striped bass anglers — both sport and commercial fishing. He tells some great stories of past striped bass escapades, which I know you'll enjoy listening to.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some solid questions and some informative information from listeners, including:

On a recent podcast a listener described a method of pre-tying nymphs on a dropper with a perfection loop, but I can't figure out how to attach them to my dry fly with a loop-loop connection. How do you accomplish this?

A listener gives us some great background on the history of public stream access in the United States.

A listener warns of of an alarming trend of beaver misinformation

Why do I keep losing trout on my barbless flies? Am I putting too much pressure on the fish?

What tips can you give me on fishing with my fiberglass rod in salt water?

I fish for bass in spring creeks.

Do you think they will be active in late fall and winter?

How do the gases in the exoskeleton of a midge pupa form?

Is there any hope of fishing a dry dropper in winter?

Do you have any tips for fishing small streams when there is ice in a creek?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing podcast.
0:14.4	This is your host, Tom Rose Fowler, and a little bit later in the podcast, my guest is
0:19.4	writer, Bill Sisson.
0:21.6	Bill is the founding editor of the Anglers Journal, which is a great magazine.
0:26.5	And Bill has recently released a book called Seasons of the Striper, which is a beautiful
0:34.9	picture book with essays about all about Stripe Bass, and the people who inhabit their
0:41.3	world.
0:42.3	And Bill is a lifelong Striper Angler, himself, in fact, his family goes back generations
0:49.5	and generations of both sport fishing and commercial fishing for Stripe Bass.
0:54.2	So Bill has grown up in this unusual society along the New England coast, the Striper Angler.
1:03.8	And Bill tells a lot of great stories about Stripe fishing, and if you're at all interested
1:08.7	in strippers along the North Atlantic, I think you'll enjoy it.
1:15.7	But first, we're going to do a fly box.
1:19.2	If a fly box is where you ask questions, and I try to help and answer your questions.
1:24.9	And if you have a question for the fly box, you can send it to me at podcast at orvis.com,
1:30.9	just type your message in your email, or you can attach a voice file, and maybe I will
1:38.4	read your question on the air.
1:42.5	Or if you don't have a question, if you have comments about a past podcast, or you have
1:48.7	complaints about the podcast, or you have a suggestion, or you disagree with something,
1:54.4	I said, well, then write anyways, and maybe I'll read it on the air.
2:00.5	This is really your podcast.
2:02.5	This podcast is really the guess I have on here, and the questions I read are based on
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