Ten True Tips for False Albacore

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

🗓️ 14 September 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast is timely—it’s on one of my very favorite fly-rod fish, the false albacore or little tunny (also known as albies, bonita, fat alberts, and boneheads). They are gorgeous, much faster than bonefish, and available from northern Cape Cod to Florida and throughout the Gulf Coast. Fall is the best time to fish for them close to shore, although in their southern range they can be caught on a fly year-round (you just might need a longer boat ride). There is no other fish I know if that causes such havoc with tackle and produces such idiotic and crazed behavior among anglers (and I include myself in that category).

One thing I neglected to mention in my podcast is the excellent book by Tom Gilmore titled False Albacore. It’s the only book written on the subject and a terrific resource. Get out there and sample a bit of this insanity yourself—you will never be the same.

Transcript

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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 enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.2	Welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide podcast.
0:19.6	This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and I'm sorry I haven't had regular podcast, weekly
0:25.3	podcast for the past couple of weeks. My day job has got in the way and I've been
0:30.6	doing old fishing so we'll try to get back on the weekly schedule.
0:34.8	This podcast is being recorded on September 12, 2012.
0:41.2	Today we're going to talk about one of my very favorite saltwater fish, the Falls Alba core.
0:48.0	They're incredibly exciting fish and available to fly riders throughout the East Coast and the
0:57.7	Gulf Coast. But let's start with some short questions from the flybox and the first one is from Rocco from California.
1:07.0	Hi Tom, my name's Rocco, Sunello from the San Gabriel Valley area in Southern California. I just got finished listening to your
1:17.8	low water podcast phenomenal just like the rest of them. I don't know what else I could say about you guys in your
1:25.0	podcast, but another happy satisfied customer and listener over here. I just got finished listening
1:32.4	to the Lowwater podcast and you mentioned you were probably going to do something about salt water for the next one.
1:38.0	So with that in mind, I recently bought a outfit from the Pasadena Orvis store.
1:45.0	It is a nine foot six weight access setup,
1:50.0	rod and reel.
1:51.0	And I was wondering, I bought it for doing mostly fishing for trout and lakes and ponds
1:58.4	but the gentleman helped me out told me that I could also use that for some salt water fly fishing.
2:06.5	I always thought that was a little on the light side for salt water.
2:10.8	But I don't know, I was hoping maybe you could tell me what species I could target
2:16.6	with a setup like that anyways keep up the good work man looking forward to
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