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 podcast is being recorded on April 5th, 2011.

And this is your host Tom Rosenbeller. The first thing we're going to start off with today are a few little flybox questions, little questions that we can answer fairly quickly here that bug people about fishing technique or terms or

whatever.

The first one is from Kevin Miller from California.

And Kevin is perplexed by some of the jargon we use in fly fishing.

Well, it's, you're not alone, Kevin, there's a lot of jargon and fly fishing and

some of it is unnecessary. He says there is a term I have heard

use that no one has been able to explain turning the fly over. It's obvious what

it could mean, but what can we as flyfishermen do to help turn the fly over properly?

Well, it's a tough answer, Kevin.

You've, I think you've gotten it.

Turning the fly over is just making sure that the fly line forms a loop and then that

loop turns over. In other words, the top end of the loop turns over and becomes flat and everything settles to the water perfectly.

So there's the fly all the way out there and then followed by the leader and then followed by

the line to your rod tip.

So everything straightens out. Straightens out would be a better

term than turning over I guess, but the loop does actually turn over the

casting loop. And unfortunately there's about 120 different things that could cause the fly not to turn over,

because almost anything you do that does not create a good cast will make the fly not turn over.

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