Selecting Flies for Saltwater, with Captain Tuck Scott
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast is a discussion with Captain Tuck Scott, head guide at Bay Street Outfitters of Beaufort, South Carolina. Tuck gives us solid tips on choosing flies for saltwater inshore species, concentrating on redfish and speckled sea trout. Of course we would be remiss to discuss fly selection without some advice on how to present them, and Tuck also shares his advice on how to fish various types of baitfish and crustacean imitations. Tuck is also going on the road! He is bringing his Maverick flats boat to various Orvis retail stores and giving free seminars on how to fish from a flats boat—how and when to take your shots, how to adjust to changing conditions—and most importantly, how to build a team with your guide. You can see Tuck in person based on the schedule below ORVIS GREENVILLE, SC FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019 11:00 AM 1:00 PM ORVIS CHARLOTTE, NC SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019 12:30 PM 2:00 PM ORVIS ASHEVILLE, NC SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019 12:30 PM 2:00 PM ORVIS ATLANTA, GA SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2019 11:00 AM 1:00 PM ORVIS ALPHARETTA SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2019 11:00 AM 12:00 PM ORVIS CHARLESTON SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2019 11:00 AM 1:00 PM Store location to be announced. ORVIS RICHMOND, VA THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 11:00 AM 1:00 PM ORVIS MANCHESTER, VT SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019 11:00 AM 12:00 PM ORVIS MANCHESTER, VT SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2019 11:00 AM 1:00 PM
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | This podcast is being recorded on the first day of spring 2019, March 20th. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, it's actually not spring till 5 o'clock this afternoon and it's about 10 of 3 now, |
| 0:26.8 | but it's close enough. |
| 0:30.8 | Today we're gonna be talking to Captain Tuck Scott and there's a lot of great |
| 0:37.0 | information in this podcast if you are interested in saltwater. |
| 0:42.6 | Fly fishing specifically on probably the most popular saltwater flyrod target in the country, |
| 0:50.4 | redfish and they're usually tag-along friends speckled sea trout. |
| 0:56.4 | So Tuck's got a lot of great ideas about selecting flies and presenting flies for these species. |
| 1:04.2 | And I know I learned a lot and I think you are too. |
| 1:09.3 | We're about to get into the flybox |
| 1:11.4 | where we have some questions and if you have some questions you can get |
| 1:17.8 | hold to me at podcast at orvus.com or if you would like to send in a phone call and leave a recorded |
| 1:28.0 | question you can reach me at 802, 362, 880000. |
| 1:37.1 | So without further ado, let's get into the flybox. |
| 1:43.0 | First question also has to do with salt water. |
| 1:48.0 | This one's from Jeff, from Wyoming. I met and married a girl from the North Shore of Long Island. |
| 1:57.6 | We spend a week each summer at her parents house on the Sound and sometime in Montauk |
| 2:02.1 | each year. I've been fly fishing the northeast now for |
| 2:05.0 | almost 20 years with limited success for Blues Stripers and Falls Albacore. I grew up fishing the waters of |
| 2:11.5 | southern Wyoming and when I see a river I can understand the water, |
| 2:14.6 | ripples, rocks, currents, cut banks, etc. However, when I see the Long Island Sound or the waves in |
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