The Excitement of Multi-Species Lakes, with Captain Drew Price

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

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This week, my guest is captain Drew Price [56:13], an expert on fishing large, multi-story, multi-species lakes. Drew has pioneered methods of catching unusual and fascinating freshwater fish like bowfin, gar, and freshwater drum. He also loves to fish for trout, bass, and carp but there are days on his home water, Lake Champlain, when those popular fish may not cooperate. And it's fun to fill your life list with new species, some of which may live in your own back yard. If you're looking for a new challenge, want to escape summer's crowded trout rivers--or if your rivers are too warm--learn about how you can fish large lakes for all kinds of cool fish.

In the Fly Box this week, we have lots of thought-provoking questions, including:

What should I pack for my trip to Alaska, and how should I pack my waders?

Why did they use heaver stuff, like size 8 wet flies and 3X leaders, back in the 1930s through 1950s?

Why am I missing brown and rainbow trout striking my leech pattern?

Why am I missing small cutthroat trout on my dry flies?

I see large brown trout very close to me in a heavily fished river, but they won't take any of my flies. Are they spooked?

Tips from a listener on how to store rods and other tackle Why do some rods not have hook keepers?

What fishing fiction do you recommend, beyond Big Two-Hearted River and A River Runs through It?

For fishing hopper patterns, should I go long and fine or short and heavy with my leader?

I caught some big rainbow trout but also saw some huge suckers in the same river. How can I catch those suckers on a fly?

Where is the best place to set down your rod and reel when switching flies or leaders?

If I see some debris on my nymph, should I clean it off?

How does the hard-sided Orvis stripping basket compare to collapsible mesh versions?

When I release trout, should I try to feed them mealworms or something to make up for them losing a meal?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.0	This is your host, Tom Rosenbauer, and this week my guest is my friend Drew Price, and
0:22.4	Drew is one of my favorite fishing buddies, and I've been around for a long time, fly
0:26.9	fish a long time, and I'm lucky enough to have some really terrific people that I love to fish
0:33.2	with. And Drew is a very special person. Drew has taught me that I have got some amazing fly fishing
0:42.4	in my backyard for, you know, close to 45 years. I pretty much ignored Lake Champlain to the North
0:50.8	of Bean, which is a giant lake on the between New York and Vermont. It has all kinds of different
0:58.2	species in it. It's a beautiful lake. It's big and it's intimidating, but Drew has taught me to
1:07.0	appreciate this resource that is, you know, about an hour, between an hour and two hours, depending
1:15.1	on where I'm going on a lake from my home. And I've just learned to love it so much, and Drew has
1:21.9	taught me so much, so many different unusual techniques of fishing for these various species,
1:32.1	everything from bullfin to gar, to freshwater drum, to lake trout, to pike, and so I wanted to
1:42.5	get Drew on today to talk about fishing a multi-story lake and a multi-species lake. A lot of you
1:52.0	are, you know, close to one of the great lakes or one of the big southern reservoirs or Midwestern
1:58.7	reservoirs or West Coast reservoirs that offer all kinds of different opportunities for fly fishing
2:06.8	under the right conditions. So I asked Drew to come on and tell us how to approach this
2:14.3	on a great big, intimidating lake. So I hope you enjoy it. I always enjoy talking to Drew,
2:20.4	and I hope you enjoy our conversation. But before we get to that, let's do the flybox.
2:27.9	And the flybox is where you ask me some questions or you make some comments, and if I feel that your
2:36.0	your comments are of interest to the rest of the listeners, sometimes they are, sometimes they are,
2:43.3	or if your questions are something that would benefit other people that are listening to the
2:50.0	podcast that I'll read them on the air, and you can either send your question to me at podcast
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