Talking Salmon (and other fish) with Mark Kurlansky

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

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

[Interview starts at 38:46]

This week I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my very favorite non-fiction writers, Mark Kurlansky. Author of such award-winning books as Cod, Salt, Paper, 1968, and A Continent of Islands, Mark is a tireless journalist who digs into the very essence of anything he does. His new book, Salmon, is his first book that involves sport fishing as well as the natural and economic history of both Atlantic and Pacific salmon. (And he has a book on fly fishing coming out next April).

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

Should I use a cauterizing pen to clean material out of the eyes of my flies?
A host of solid tips for the novice Spey caster from a listener
What makes a good skater fly, and how do you fish them?
Why don't more people use the drop-shot method when fishing nymphs?
How do you attach a dropper to a Euro rig with passing the bottom fly through the loop?
How can I fish a Euro rig in really tiny streams?
Is my 8-weight rod too light for pike fishing?
Where should I fish in relation to a tailrace below a dam, and is a Spey rod a good idea?
Why did I see a big smallmouth slowly cruising up a small creek?
What is the best way to break off a fly when you are snagged?
How can I fish plunge pools in a small stream?
Does using a UV light when curing epoxy harm your eyes?

Transcript

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0:00.0	And the Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host Tom
0:20.0	Rosenbauer and this is an exciting show for me because I got to interview one of my very
0:28.7	favorite authors. Mark Kurlansky is a non-fiction writer and journalist that I've admired for many years
0:38.0	through such books as salt and paper and cod and a continent of islands and 1968 and until recently I had no idea
0:48.8	that Mark was was a lifelong flyfisher So I got to do a Facebook live with Mark and today we're going to be listening to a podcast interview I did with Mark and we're talking about his new book on salmon which is brilliant
1:05.8	it's the kind of the natural and the economic history and the environmental history of
1:16.3	both Atlantic and Pacific salmon and it's done in Mark's typical exhaustive journalistic style. He really gets to the to the heart of manners and digs into the details. So I hope you'll
1:27.1	enjoy that. But before we get to Mark, let's do the flybox.
1:33.0	And if you would like to send a question to the flybox, please do.
1:38.0	Send me either a voice file or an email message to podcast at Orvis.com.
1:46.9	And I read all of them, I don't answer all of them.
1:50.7	If I can't answer them, sometimes I go and look for an expert and sometimes if I don't like the question, I don't answer it.
1:59.0	So anyway, here are some questions that I was able to answer or will try to answer anyway.
2:10.0	And the first one is from Chris.
2:14.0	Chris has a comment.
2:15.0	First, I enjoy using Orvis Big Eye dry fly hooks when tying my dries and some emerges.
2:21.0	Would you please ask the powers that be at Orvis if you could offer all
2:25.0	hooks from size 16 or smaller as big eye hooks, or at least on curved clink-camera,
2:30.6	scud, and nymph hooks? I promise Iymph Hooks. I doubt that I'm alone in wishing for small hooks
2:36.9	with larger eyes. Well, Chris, in general, the smaller wet fly hooks do have larger eyes than the small dry flies.
2:47.4	So those are probably going to be about as big as you're going to get on those scud hooks.
2:55.0	And as far as buying lots, if you do want to design a hook and buy lots, if you want to buy I think it's I think the minimums on a new
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