Smallmouth Bass Tips with Kip Vieth

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

🗓️ 17 June 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week my guest is one of our top warmwater fly fishing experts. You probably know of Kip Vieth as a muskie guide, as he is one of the most famous fly-rod muskie anglers. But his first love is smallmouth bass, and it’s fascinating that his location is the most famous river in the United States, the Mississippi River. He fishes the upper river where the water is clear and the location is unspoiled by the endless development we think of when we imagine the Mississippi. As well as discovering his unique part of the world, you’ll also pick up many tips on catching smallmouth bass anywhere.

In the Fly Box section I try to answer some questions on targetting carp,, alternatives to wire when fishing for muskie, using flies with a spin rod, my "method" when approaching a river, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed
0:14.6	fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:19.6	Hi and welcome to the Orbis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast part of it anyway
0:26.4	is being recorded on June 8th 2015 2015. And before we get into the podcast, just wanted to have a couple housekeeping
0:39.7	comments here on the podcast because I get a lot of questions that I really can't answer on the air and I feel bad.
0:48.3	Sometimes I respond to them if I can and if I got enough time sometimes I don't but just so you know if you
0:58.8	ask a question that has already been well covered on previous podcasts.
1:03.6	I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, probably not gonna answer it on here.
1:07.4	I think I remember most of the things I talked about before.
1:10.4	Sometimes somebody complained recently that I had gone over some topics that were already in the archives, but you know, I don't remember everything I did in the podcast.
1:20.0	But you can go into the archives on the learning center at how to flyfish.org.
1:25.4	Those podcasts are searchable with keywords and that's the only place
1:29.7	the podcast are searchables on the learning center. There's a special interface there. So you know
1:37.0	Please check the archive before you ask a question just so you're not disappointed
1:41.9	Another issue is don't ask me about old tackling how much
1:46.6	it's worth because I'm not an expert on antique tackling and honestly antique tackle is worth what someone's willing to pay for it. So you never know and
1:59.0	we're definitely not in the business of appraising antique tackle there are people that do and if you call
2:05.3	our technical line in Roanoke at 800 548 9548 they can direct you to the the ones that
2:12.3	were we're currently recommending to people.
2:16.1	And then the last thing is knots.
2:18.5	I get a lot of questions about this knot and that knot and what do you think of the Davy knot it has been a popular
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