The Lord of the Flies Returns
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2015
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast, we continue our series on fly tying with an interview with a man sometimes known as The King of Swing for his steelheading skills, but he also has been called Lord of the Flies. Shawn Brillon is in charge of flies and fly tying materials at Orvis, and as a result he has his pulse on what is going on in the wild world of making bugs on hooks. Our topic this week is natural vs. synthetic materials—when you want one or the other, which ones Shawn and I can’t live (or at least tie) without), and the future of fly-tying materials. In The Fly Box this week, we answer questions on the best rod for smallmouth bass, how to prospect unknown waters in the spring, whether older fly fishing tackle puts you at any disadvantage, non-toxic wire as a substitute for lead, uses for antelope hair, and a great reader suggestion to add to my list of “10 Things I Wish I had Known When I Started Fly Tying” from last week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, |
| 0:07.0 | 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 |
| 0:15.3 | author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi and welcome to the Orbis fly Vision Guide podcast this podcast is being recorded on |
| 0:26.3 | January 4th |
| 0:28.3 | January 4th 2015 and I hope all you people that complain about the fact that we don't have a |
| 0:35.2 | podcast every week are proud of me because I have been doing a podcast a week and it's been |
| 0:42.2 | driving me just about crazy but I told |
| 0:47.5 | myself I was going to try to stay on a better schedule at least for this month or so a fly tying podcast are doing so I will I will try to do |
| 0:56.6 | a weekly podcast whenever I can because I enjoy him I enjoy sharing with you and I enjoy hearing your questions and and learning from you because |
| 1:07.8 | You know we're in this journey together and I get some great I get some great suggestions get some great suggestions, get some great advice from emails and calls, people |
| 1:19.4 | call in and say, oh I know what that guy's problem is and they tell me and I put him on the air so I'm going to do one of those |
| 1:27.4 | in a second. |
| 1:28.5 | But before I do a couple announcements of interest to you. First of all, from Friday, February 6 until February |
| 1:39.6 | 20th, there will be free shipping on all fly-time materials except for desk items like you know the big fly-tying desks and things like that |
| 1:51.8 | If you buy something else you you're still going to have to pay the standard |
| 1:55.3 | shipping, but if you just buy fly-towing materials, hooks, materials, threads, hackles, |
| 2:01.6 | all that kind of stuff, You will get free shipping from |
| 2:07.0 | February 6, 2015 to February 20th, 2015. So take advantage of that now because it's a good time to |
| 2:16.8 | stock up on fly tying stuff and it's a good time to tie flies. Speaking of tying flies, if you do want to learn fly tying, our retail stores and some of our authorized dealers are still offering the fly tying 101 program where you get some basic lessons on how to tie your |
| 2:36.6 | first fly and how to get started in this crazy and fascinating past time. |
| 2:42.0 | If you go to the Orvis website, |
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