The Hidden History of Fly Fishing, with Paul Schullery

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

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

So you thought you knew something about fly-fishing history? This week I have a chat with Paul Schullery, in my opinion the premier fly-fishing historian in North America. When I have a question about history Paul is my go-to guy. He’s the author of at least 50 natural history books, was a historian for Yellowstone National Park, and when he lived in Vermont was executive director of The American Museum of fly fishing. In the podcast, you’ll learn that not many things are new in fly fishing. Tenkara-style fishing was used in Europe hundreds of years ago. People were catching bass on a fly in Florida since revolutionary days. Euro nymphing? Drop shot techniques? Fly fishing for pike? Saltwater fly fishing? Those were all done hundreds of years ago. Paul also goes into some detail on women in fly fishing, and how women have been involved in the sport since the very beginning. In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions: Is it worth it to buy prescription polarized sunglasses and where do I buy good ones? What works best for early season brook trout in Vermont? Am I cheating if I use a small wireless fish finder on my pontoon boat? Why do you call this The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide podcast? Is it just for guides? Why doesn’t anyone make a fiberglass rod longer than nine feet? How do I search the podcasts for a topic? What is the best way to catch white perch on a fly rod? I bought an old reel with a fly line on it and the line is all kinked up. Can I fix the line or should I trash it? Can I use fluorocarbon spinning line as a leader? Why did I have trouble catching fish when they were rising? I can catch them on nymphs. What is a good rotary fly-tying vise in the $100-$200 price range?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being recorded on
0:17.1	April 20th, 2019 and a little bit later in this show you're going to discover some really really interesting
0:28.1	things about the history of fly fishing I think for most of you there are going to be things that you have never heard of
0:36.9	before and never suspected. So I've got Paul Shalary probably the premier fly fishing historian in North America and a good
0:47.8	friend and I've been looking forward to doing this podcast on fly fishing history so I hope you enjoy it. But first the fly box and
0:58.2	by the way if you have questions for the fly box you can send an email to podcast at Orvis.com. You can leave a phone
1:09.0	message at 802 362 8880000 or even better yet as suggested by a listener recently and a lot of
1:18.3	you have been doing this because the sound comes through clear is record a voice memo on your smartphone and then
1:25.6	email it to that email address that I gave you. That's been working really well
1:30.0	and I hope that most of you and I love to have I love to have spoken questions instead of emails and it breaks up the
1:39.9	breaks up the monotony of reading emails and I like to hear your voice and
1:44.5	those voice files have worked very well so try to do that.
1:49.1	Hey Tom, this is Jake calling from Southeast Michigan.
1:53.0	Listen, I've been following the podcast for a little over a year.
1:56.0	Been doing lots of small mouth, pike, panfish, fishing,
2:00.0	in the Huron River system, but never have I had the chance to catch any trout up until today.
2:08.0	I was a troutless fly fisherman, but after many, many attempts on a local stream that has some holdover
2:15.4	brown trout, I was able to land my first brown trout of my entire life today.
2:19.8	I landed it on a fly that I tied all myself and with the knowledge from the
2:25.2	podcast your YouTube videos as well as Pete Kutzer's flycasting videos I was able to put it all together and it's a great feeling.
2:36.2	So I really appreciate all the help and I appreciate the podcast because without this I know that
2:40.8	what I accomplished today couldn't have been done.
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