Steelhead Tips with Adam MacNamara
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast is worth listening to, just for the entertainment value of hearing a listener say he doesn’t listen to many of the podcasts because I “speak too slowly as if you are a grade school teacher teaching remedial students” and that “Words or ideas that are so basically common knowledge of this sport need no explanation. For example, if one of your listeners doesn’t know what a tippet is, they should look it up elsewhere and not waste the other listeners’ time with a long, slooow, and overdrawn explanation” So take that, you dummies! Use Google and don’t bother me with your basic questions. Are you bothered by this? Or do you have a different opinion? If so, please listen to the podcast and then come back to this post to air your comments. If I’m boring you I want to hear about it.
Oh, yeah, and my long overdrawn explanations this week cover right-angle nymph rigs, rotary vises, lines for bonefish, year class dominance in trout, why there is no magic fly for a hatch, tying the Surf Candy, and much more. And the main event is an interview with Adam MacNamara, manager of the Orvis retail store in Portland Oregon and longtime steelhead angler and guide. And you’ll never guess what we talk about…
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 fly fishing |
| 0:15.3 | author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg. |
| 0:21.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on |
| 0:27.2 | October 6, 2015 and a little bit later on in the show we have Adam McNamara who is the store |
| 0:37.6 | fishing manager at the Orvis store in Portland and is also an experienced |
| 0:41.6 | steelhead guide and we're going to talk about West Coast Steelhead. |
| 0:45.0 | So it's that time a year and I think you'll enjoy the podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | But first, let's do some flybox questions. |
| 0:54.4 | Yes, Tom, my name is Don. I live in Southern Colorado in the beautiful San Louis Valley. |
| 1:00.5 | And I was just listening to some of your podcasts in the archives and you were talking on one about the little teeny tiny images and how like old guys like us have a hard time threaten those things. |
| 1:14.7 | And I have a quick question. |
| 1:15.8 | I was just wondering if it would be kosher to just tie a simple little |
| 1:20.8 | bitty loop on those little guys and put them back in your box and when you get to the |
| 1:26.2 | stream all you got to do is tie your tippet on. Does that make sense or that will |
| 1:30.9 | will that affect the performance of the flies too much? |
| 1:37.0 | So yeah, I was just wondering if that might work because I can't hardly see either. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you. Enjoy your podcast. I've really learned a lot in the West. I've just got just |
| 1:47.2 | started listening to you and I think I've already gone through the entire archive. |
| 1:50.8 | So thanks a lot. Appreciate it. |
| 1:54.0 | So Don, that sounds like a great idea. I don't think that little loop is going to affect things that might |
| 2:00.8 | occasionally catch. You might occasionally |
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