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

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer. Hi this is Tom Rosenbauer and welcome to the Orvis

fly fishing guide podcast. Last week we talked about setting the hook in basic trout fishing and dry fly and nymph fishing.

And this week I want to go into a little more detail on some aspects of trout fishing, but more for fly fishing for other species, saltwater species in particular.

Now in trout fishing, we talked about raising the rod tip just enough to put some tension on the line until you feel the weight of the fish.

And just when you've gotten used to doing that, comfortable doing that, I'm going to tell you that when you fish a streamer for trout or when you fish for bonefish or when you're

fishing for tarp and or snook or redfish, some of the bigger fish that chase flies, you don't

want to raise the rod tip. And this is one of the biggest problems that people who have grown up trout fishing have with saltwater fly fishing

They have a bonefish on the flats and the bonefish is chasing what it thinks is a crab or a small minnow and you're stripping the line and the bonefish is chasing the fly and you think the bonefish is taking your fly.

So the first thing you do is make a trout fishing strike

and raise your rod tip.

And that fly goes out of the water and sailing into the air.

Well, that's a sure way to scare bonefish because very little of their prey goes airborne when they're chasing it.

So what you need to learn in situations like this is the strip strike, and it has a lot of advantages. The

strip strike is just let's say you have the same bonefish chasing your fly

across the flats and your strip strip stripping this thing along and the bonefish kind of lights up and

and rears up and it looks like it's taken the fly. What you need to condition

yourself to doing is to pull hard on that fly line, harder, without raising the tip of the

rod.

And one thing that I've often heard bonefish guides say, which makes sense is long strip, long strip.

They really don't want their fishermen to make a long strip.

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