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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

Stripping Streamers in the Fall, with Butch Wicks

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Stripping Streamers in the Fall, with Butch Wicks
With all the hype around trout Spey and swinging streamers, let's not lose sight of plain old streamer stripping, which is a faster-paced way of fishing streamers and often results in explosive strikes. Montana/Washington guide Butch Wicks of Healing Waters Lodge in Twin Bridges, Montana gives us some hot tips on stripping streamers in the Fall. The interview starts at 28:00.


In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions and comments:

I am teaching a friend how to fish nymphs. Should I start him on dry dropper and indicator fishing or Euro nymphing?

Will my Trout Poly Leaders work OK for swinging flies for Lake Erie steelhead, or do I also need to get Spey Polyleaders?

Why could I not catch fish during a heavy Green Drake spinner fall?I had to cut my fly line. Is there any way to repair it without a bulky connection?

What should I keep in mind when tying some steelhead patterns to use on Pacific salmon?

A clarification to the podcast on the Clean Water Act from a retired EPA wetland scientist.

What to do if you see someone on the water with very poor fish-handling techniques.Is trout spawning temperature of day length dependent, and what behavioral clues should I look for?

I saw what I thought were carp feeding on the surface. Do carp feed on top, and if so what do they eat?

How do you set the hook when using a two-handed strip for striped bass?

When should I use a weighted vs. unweighted fly for striped bass in San Franciso Bay, and what fly line should I use?

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbauer

0:19.6

and in this week's show we're going to talk about stripping streamers.

0:24.5

We've been talking a lot on Facebook live events and fly-tying events about swinging streamers.

0:31.8

And we're going to go to back to the not so much old

0:35.9

fashion because an old fashion way of fishing a streamer would be really to swing

0:40.9

it but we're going to talk about the more aggressive way of

0:45.4

fishing streamers by casting them to the bank or casting them to wherever some

0:50.0

structure and stripping them. So we've got Montana guide Butch Wicks on deck,

0:57.6

Butch is from Healing Waters Lodge in Twin Bridges, Montana.

1:03.0

But first, let's answer a few questions.

1:06.0

And if you have a question for the podcast and want to see if I can answer it on the flybox,

1:12.0

you can send an email to podcast at Orvis. You can either attach your question in the body of an email

1:21.8

of an email or you can record a voice file and attach it to your email.

1:28.0

So let's start with a question this week, an email question.

1:32.0

This one's from Bob in Columbus, Ohio.

1:37.0

This summer I've been teaching my friend Dr. Ben how to flyfish. I loaned him the revised edition of the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide and we both

1:45.1

listened to your podcast and have learned a lot thanks for everything you and

1:48.7

Orvis do in educating us all. He bought a Clearwater Six Weight combo so he could trout and

1:54.1

bass fish. It's been a hot summer in Central Ohio so he mostly fish for bass in the

1:59.1

river. With fall here, we will be trout fishing more and he needs to learn how to nymph. As a beginner,

2:06.1

should he first learn the traditional indicator hopper and nymph or go straight

2:11.8

into euro nymphing.

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