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.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This week's podcast is on is online control, which I think is something we all need a little help with and I see it a lot in people who have just had a couple of casting lessons and they cast pretty well and then they get on the

they get on the stream and around a lake and and everything goes to hell in a

hand basket because they didn't really learn about line control.

They learn how to cast well and they learn how to follow through,

but then they don't know what to do with their hands and their line after the

line hits the water.

So I got 10 tips for you.

I'll probably end up with 11 or 12.

Maybe not.

But we got 10 tips for line control

to help you have more fun, help you, help you keep you keep a little bit more organized on the water.

So tip number one is to clean your line and clean it often.

A line that's clean, we'll shoot through the guides better,

and we'll allow you to shoot more line,

and we'll allow you to mend better,

and just make your casting better.

So the best thing to do is to take your fly line and put some little soap and water on a paper towel or an old cloth and run your fly line through the soap and

water and then run it through a clean cloth put a little pre-put enough pressure on

the line to to give it a little bit of stretch and you'll see all the dirt and grit and

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