Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,

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

author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on August 13, 2015.

Now let's start out with the flybox a little bit later in the show. I'm going to have

Bill Reed is my guest. Bill is a long-time friend and associate here at Orvis and I've known him since he was a little

kid working with his dad's fly shop and he's one of the best anglers around and so he's going to talk about

still water fishing. I've had a lot of requests it's about still water fishing.

I'm a lousy still water angler so I needed to bring in an expert to help me.

Anyway, to help me to do the whole podcast. Anyway, a bill will be on later, but let's do some quick

questions. The first one comes from Connor Sutton from I think he's

from Michigan. My buddy and I recently had a successful trip on the Holy

Waters of the Osable in our home state of Michigan.

I'm relatively weary of throwing streamers because I have a much lower success rate with

them than I do with dry dropper. Time on a good trout stream can be hard to come by so we did not bother much with lower

percentage casts. However, we did find ourselves catching a large number of golden shiners

while drying our waiters by the fire in the evening, we found ourselves with a question.

If we're catching small non-trought species, should we consider that a sign to switch to streamers

as to match the hatch in areas with are abundant.

We caught plenty of 8 to 11 inch brown and brook trout on nymphs and general tractors,

but the bigger fish eluded us.

Does the presence of other food sources such as these shiners allow more fish to become more

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