Ten tips on making your fishing writing better, with Dave Karczynski
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Dave is one of the best young voices in fly fishing [38:14]. He's the real deal—he is a fishy guy and can handle a fly rod with the best of them, but he's also a teacher of writing at the college level and a published author. (His new book is terrific and the title is Calling After Water.) Dave gives us what I consider a mini master class on how to write about fly fishing so that your stories are engaging, concise, and fun. I know you will find many useful tips in this podcast.
In the Fly Box this week, we have an assortment of great questions from listeners, including:
What are the benefits of tube flies?
Can I nymph fish for steelhead with a Spey rod?
Is there a benefit from using UV fly-tying materials?
What is the best way to attach pre-made droppers to my leader?
Tippet ring, surgeon's knot, or blood knot?
Why do people look down on swinging wet flies for trout?
How can I fish a bigger river without wasting my time trying to fish it all?
Is it better to go to a smaller streamer when fish are just bumping the fly?
How can young people help to improve our environment?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | This is your host, Tom Rose Powell. |
| 0:15.8 | And my guest this week in the interview part of the podcast is the writer Dave Karsensky. |
| 0:22.9 | Dave, um, Dave, um, Dave's a guy I met a number of years ago and I had read an article in, |
| 0:27.7 | and I think it was Fly Fisherman magazine about fishing in Poland. |
| 0:31.1 | I hadn't seen the, um, hadn't seen the, hadn't seen the, uh, author's name before. |
| 0:41.8 | And, uh, the, the piece really struck me it was it was fun it was interesting it was well written the fishing parts of it were great and I said boy |
| 0:47.5 | how has this guy not been on my radar he's really really good and so I reached out today and I got |
| 0:53.7 | his email address |
| 0:55.1 | and we chatted over email a little bit and then we finally got to fish together. And I have |
| 1:01.3 | tremendous respect for Dave in his writing. I think he's one of the best new young writers to come |
| 1:09.9 | along in fly fishing in a long time. And so I wanted to get Dave on the |
| 1:15.5 | podcast. For one thing, he's got a new book out, which is a terrific book, which we'll |
| 1:20.8 | discuss in the podcast. But I wanted Dave to give us some advice on writing about fly fishing. I think in every fly fisher there's an |
| 1:31.2 | author waiting to come out. And I think flyfishers are readers and they like to research things |
| 1:36.8 | and they like to share their experiences. And whether you want to write for, whether you want to |
| 1:41.8 | write a book or an article for a fishing magazine, maybe you just, |
| 1:45.8 | maybe you want to write for your local T.U. newsletter or maybe you just want to write a letter |
| 1:50.1 | or an email to a fishing buddy. There are ways to, there are ways to do this that will make |
| 1:57.0 | your writing more fun, more interesting, more enjoyable for other people to read. So |
| 2:02.7 | Dave has, Dave is a, you know, is an English teacher as well. And he's got some great advice. |
| 2:10.0 | In fact, I picked up, I've written a few books in my time, but I picked up some really good |
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