Steelhead East and West

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

🗓️ 12 September 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Steelhead are one of the most glamorous and frustrating fish you can catch with a fly rod. They are similar in behavior and fighting ability to Atlantic salmon, but whereas our fly fishing traditions for Atlantic salmon came from a more aristocratic background, fly fishing for steelhead evolved via a more populist tradition. Where can you fish for steelhead? What techniques work best? Are the fish from the Great Lakes a true steelhead or just a big rainbow trout, and how do fishing techniques for them differ? And how many steelhead can you expect to catch in a day's fishing? (in my experience, you should expect to catch zero and be pleasantly surprised).

Listen to this week's podcast and get some tips on steelhead fishing, and then visit our podcast forum to add your thoughts or suggest future steelhead podcast topics, as this is not the last of our steelhead podcasts for this season.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiasts. from your
0:15.0	claim-fishing author and lifelong fly-fishing enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide podcast.
0:20.0	This is Tom Rosenbauer, and the first thing I'd like to do this week.
0:24.0	Oh, the first thing I'd like to do is give you the date, which is September 9, 2011.
0:30.0	At least that's when this is being recorded.
0:33.4	The first thing I'd like to do is read you a letter
0:36.1	from Tim Robinson.
0:38.6	This was posted on the Orvis podcast feedback Forum, which is Orvis.com slash
0:46.7	podcast feedback. That's the place to comment on episodes,
0:51.0	suggest new topics, or just start a topic of general interest if you'd like.
0:57.6	This is what Tim had to say.
0:59.2	Hello, this is my first post on this forum.
1:01.4	Let me first start by saying our thoughts are with you and
1:04.3	your family and all those people affected by Hurricane Irene and this recent rain we've
1:08.7	received on the East Coast. I hope you and your family are well. Second I would like
1:12.3	to thank you for the podcast. It is a great resource and an
1:15.0	asset to your company. Not only are your podcast clear and easy to follow, but also
1:19.1	your descriptions of tactics and situations are brilliant and also easy to understand. Notice the brilliant.
1:27.0	But that's not the reason I'm reading this letter.
1:30.0	That said, I would like to thank you for an episode on swinging flies. I've always wanted to meet this tactic with success, but do to misunderstanding where it is useful and how to execute it properly, I have never had success with swinging wet flies or even
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