Simon Says: A Guide to Guides

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

🗓️ 19 December 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview Simon Perkins, youngest member of the Perkins family (the owners of Orvis) on our staff. Simon is in charge of our travel, schools, hunting, and guide programs and was a guide himself in the past. This week he gives valuable advice on picking the right guide or lodge—a big investment in time and money, and a decision you should not take lightly. Also this week, in the Fly Box, we discuss the value of head cement, tippet rings, cleaning saltwater gear, and why you might want a Spey rod for winter steelhead.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Tom, it's Brian from New Jersey.
0:02.0	I just want to tell you about my first year in fly fishing.
0:07.0	I practice casting every day before the spring.
0:10.0	I got skunked, my first two trips to the local rivers and after that I called
0:15.7	plenty of trout niffing and my first brown on a Hendrixon I also took a trip
0:22.4	with friends to Grand Lake Stream Main, Conotado Brot Trout, and landlocked salmon on
0:28.4	streamers, nymphs and dries.
0:31.0	It was really awesome. Also caught an 18-inch brown on a merger back in New Jersey.
0:38.0	That was amazing.
0:40.0	Since summer I caught Bass, Pickerel, Perch, croppy, and about a thousand blue gills, my new favorite
0:46.6	fly rod fish.
0:48.4	Got skunked, fishing for carp, got skunked in the fall, but it's no big big deal and then I ended the year in Florida when I was down there for a wedding
0:56.0	Bro my six week I got a bunch of mackerel right right off the beach
1:01.0	That was great and I't have done all this without the help of the podcast and the help of
1:08.0	Orvis. I recently bought an Orvis super fine fore weight. Very excited to use it next year and a little
1:17.6	suggestion for the podcast. If you have any time to maybe do a 10 minute podcast on each of your rods describing maybe what they do or the action and what people can use them for, that would be great.
1:32.0	Some people can listen to them if they want to and
1:36.2	or risk can benefit from it too but that's for all you do guys love the
1:41.2	podcast yeah Love the podcast. podcast. See ya.
1:43.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques
1:51.6	to help you get the most of your time on the water.
1:54.4	Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast
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