Ten Tips to Keep you from Lining Fish

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

🗓️ 12 June 2012

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week we explore a topic that has not been requested by a listener but is something that struck me over the past few weeks of fishing over some difficult trout. It's the concept of keeping your fly line away from fish, and it's an important issue in nearly every kind of shallow water fishing--from bonefish and tarpon and striped bass to trout and carp. I include 10 tips to help you keep from "lining" fish

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:14.6	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenb Rosenberg and this podcast is being recorded on June 8, 2012.
0:27.0	First let's start out with some items from the flybox. These are short questions that we try to answer here in the podcast.
0:39.0	And for those of you who called in your podcast requests, I have to apologize because we have a
0:45.7	new phone system here at Orvis and I think your requests are getting through, but I can't figure
0:51.8	out how to retrieve them with the new phone system.
0:55.0	And the people in IT are busy working lots of bugs out in the phone system and
1:02.0	podcast requests are probably fairly low priority for them.
1:07.0	So no offense, but I'll get to him.
1:10.0	As soon as I figure out how to retrieve those messages, I'll get to him.
1:13.7	But for now, we had some really good email questions come in this week.
1:18.4	So in the flybox, I'll devote the fly box section to email requests this week.
1:26.6	The first one is from Tracy, from Maine. Tracy just bought his first full flex rod.
1:35.0	You got the six foot six inch super fine trout bomb and it's a guess it's a gift to myself for 20 years on the same job my anniversary gift.
1:45.6	Good one, Tracy. Good gift.
1:51.6	And he's gonna fish small streams in Central Maine.
1:55.0	And Tracy says, the 70 to $80 for a fly line is not too bad, but with several kids at home and a wife that thinks I have
2:03.2	gone mad I would like to purchase one line I will be happy with for a while so you
2:07.7	know there are there are a lot of floating trout lines in the orvis line. And I think when in doubt, Tracy, my preference is the standard weight forward
2:22.0	trout line, the one with the high floating tip, the new
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