Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,

bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing

author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. Actually, we should call it the

Orvis Fly Tying Guide Podcast this week because we're going to talk mainly about fly tying. The reason is that I'm

going to get you all jazzed up on fly tying and then you're going to find out that

Orvis is giving 20% off on all fly tying tools and materials this week.

So it's the week of February 11th, and this sale goes on for the whole month of February so most of us get

pretty excited about tying flies if we're if we're smart enough to tie before the

season starts and and so 20% off on all your materials is going to save you some bucks and maybe get you to try some new stuff, experiment with some new stuff.

The only two things that we are not giving 20% off on are Renzetti Vices and Hoffman Hackle Capes.

Our margins are pretty slim on those, and Orvis does have to make a profit.

We have to support a couple thousand mortgages and more than a couple thousand

kids going to college and families that need to put food on their table so we got to make a little bit of a profit

much as we much as you don't like to hear that. So before we get into the fly to

oh and by the way I'm not going to do an interview this week I hope you don't mind

just just listen an interview this week. I hope you don't mind just just

listen to me this week. I love fly tying and I could go on for hours and hours about

fly tying so I thought I'd keep this one all to myself.

So, before we get into fly tying

phone call. Hi Tom my name is Mark Kowicki from Midland, Michigan and I have two questions

The first is in regards to

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