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 this podcast is being recorded on March 30th 2016 and a little bit later in the show, we have a

interview with Jesse Haller, who is our new Lord of the Flies here at Orvis,

and he's also a very serious competition angler but more importantly

he does a lot of tight-line nymphing and so that's what we're going to talk about regardless of what you how you feel about competition.

Fly fishing tight line nipping

tight line nymphing is is an interesting way to fish let me put it that way,

and it is a deadly way to fish and very effective.

So stay tuned for that.

But first, let's go on to the flybox and start with it work start with an

email question. This is from Tyler from Nashville, Tennessee. Tyler says I think it'd be

very cool if you elaborate on croppy fishing or maybe even had a whole episode on it.

Croppy fishing is very popular around these parts and the most common rig is using a bobber and a hooked minnow, but I would like to catch a ton of croppy on flyrod, and that means leaving the bait and it's been cast at home.

Well, Tyler, you're probably already about 90% there because the hardest part of catching

cropy on a fly rod is finding some cropy as it is with a lot of fish. But I think you

will find them very eager to take a fly. The secret is, in most cases you're probably going to have to use a sinking or a sink tip line. You're going to need a line that'll get you down where the

cropy are. And, you know, around the brush piles or old submerged structures or rock piles or wherever they are.

But once you find them, sinking or a sink tip line,

get your fly fairly close to the bottom.

You may have to cast out there and count a few seconds before you start stripping.

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