The Godfather of Modern Fly-Fishing Books, Nick Lyons

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week, it was my great pleasure to interview Nick Lyons, who I consider to be the godfather of modern fly-fishing books. Nick has edited and published books by some of our most famous fly anglers--Lee and Joan Wulff, Lefty Kreh, Dave Whitlock, and Swisher and Richards. He was also my first editor and I have so much to thank him for. Nick tells stories of the early days of fly-fishing books--his successes and failures and his journey through the past half-century of fly fishing.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some great questions, including:
When fishing an in-line dropper, I have problems with the dropper slipping off my upper hook. How can I fix this?
I want to fish flies for sauger along the bottom. What type of fly should I use?
My hunter friend has offered me some duck and goose feathers. What feathers should I ask him to keep?
Any tips on catching stocked trout in a pond?
What line would you recommend for trolling from a float tube?
Why is trout fishing more productive in Montana than in North Carolina?
Do you think those big "American-type" articulated streamers will work in Finland?
What kind of stream fish can I catch with a fly rod in northern Alabama?
A tip on finding trout at the mouth of cold-water feeder streams in summer.
Are "planted" and "stocked" trout streams the same thing? And do stocked trout ever reproduce naturally?
Can I attach backing to a welded loop with just a clinch knot?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbauer and a little bit later in the
0:16.0	podcast I'm going to be talking to an old friend and valued mentor of mine named Nick Lyons. If you are at all interested in
0:29.5	fishing books you'll find Nick's story very interesting because Nick is really really the
0:37.3	Godfather of modern American fly fishing books.
0:43.0	And Nick's a great storyteller, and I think you'll be interested in some of the history behind some of the fishing books that we have available today.
0:54.8	So anyway, I hope you enjoy that.
0:57.0	I certainly enjoyed talking to Nick.
0:59.0	And we're taking a little break this week from my series on winter trout fishing. I thought
1:05.0	I'd give you a little New Year's break from that and next week we'll be
1:11.2	back into more winter fly fishing tips.
1:16.1	Oh, anyway, let's do the flybox.
1:18.5	Let's answer some questions.
1:20.4	Or let's take some tips from listeners and if you have a tip or a comment or a question
1:29.2	You can send it to me at podcast at Orvis.com. You can either just put your question or tip in
1:39.1	the body of your email or you can attach a voice file and maybe I'll read it on the air.
1:45.0	So let's start with an email this week from Jamie.
1:51.0	Hi Tom, I'm hoping you can steer me in the right direction with his dilemma.
1:55.5	I fish the Euro tight-line style a lot and use two flies most of the time.
2:00.5	The issue I am having is that the dropper slips off the bend of my heavier beathead
2:05.8	point fly when I'm using barbless hooks. I use a clinch knot to tie my tip it on and
2:11.2	cinch it up tight and yes I spit on the knot but it seems to
2:14.5	wriggle off after a while and more often after snagging on the bottom of a rock.
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