Seek the Inside, Reading the Water with Simon Perkins

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

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, my guest is Orvis COO Simon Perkins, a lifelong fly fisher with 8 years of full-time guiding experience prior to working for Orvis. The subject is “Seek the Inside”, getting detailed about reading the water in a place that many anglers ignore—and one of the best places to find trout. Learn how to find these inside places and how to fish them from a highly experienced guide and fly fisher—and a great story teller. In the Fly Box this week, we have these questions and tips: How do I keep my fine scissors sharp? What should I avoid cutting with them? I have an 8 ½ foot 5 weight Encounter rod and need something bigger as well. What weight rod should I think of for my next one? A great tip on how to relieve lower back pain when fishing all day. Why don’t we have wild rainbow trout in more streams if they are so easy to grow in a hatchery? What is causing my leader to twist when fishing with a dry dropper? What are some good fly patterns to tie for panfish, ones that are easy for a beginner to tie? What would cause a large brown trout to suddenly dart erratically in all directions and then return to the same spot? What can I do to keep the tip of my floating line from sinking? Why am I having so much trouble making short casts on small streams? Is a 5-weight rod too small for bass? Can Antron be used as a parachute post material? Why do the wings on my poly wing spinners sweep back along the body and how can I fix it? How would you approach an unknown stream if you only had a few hours to fish?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being recorded on September 19th, 2019.
0:17.0	And a little bit later in the show, we're going to be talking to Orvis CEO of Simon Perkins about seeking
0:27.4	the inside and it's a little bit of a detail on a particular way of reading the water and
0:37.6	and finding trout in some unexpected places that other people might pass up.
0:42.8	So we like to do podcasts on reading the water.
0:48.1	And I think this brings up a topic that we might want to explore in more details.
0:53.6	So if you're interested in more podcast on reading the water
0:57.5	and getting into detail in particular types of water,
1:01.0	send me an email and let me know if that appeals to you. And if you want to send any
1:06.3	kind of questions to the podcast to be read on the air. You can send an email to podcast at Orvis.com and you can
1:17.7	either ask a question in text or you can record a voice file on your phone and attach it to your email.
1:30.0	Or you can do the old-fashioned way if you got a good service and you're not driving in the car with poor cell phone service.
1:36.0	You know who I'm talking to.
1:38.0	Call 802 362-8800,.6. You can also follow me on Instagram if you want at Rosenbauer T.
1:49.0	I try to do the same kind of things I do in the podcast here you're not going to see a lot of grip and
1:55.9	grins of big fish in my Instagram feed because I don't catch big fish but you might
2:01.2	might get some tips and I try to try to make my Instagram
2:06.1	posts a little bit more interesting than just grip and grins. You won't see any
2:11.7	grip and grins I don't think or very few. Anyway, let's get
2:19.2	into the flybox and we'll start it out with an email. This one is from and excuse
2:29.2	me if I mispronounce your first name because he's from Trondheim, Norway.
2:36.0	Oovind.
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