Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide podcasts. This week's podcast is in response to a request from a listener.

We love to have these requests from you because it makes it easy on me.

I don't have to plan these things too far in advance. So keep those requests coming. This

week's request was about fly reels and this was a beginning flyfisher who

wants some advice on how to buy a fly reel. Well there's lots of good

news out there and flyreels. There's probably never been as many great fly

reel on the market as today.

And there are many different price points.

And there are many different places

to get a quality reel, of course, Orvis is one, and there are other great manufacturers

like Ross, Abel, and Tiber that make some great quality reels.

And the other good news is that a reel you buy today

is going to be less expensive with better features and better quality than one that

you had bought ten years ago. The first thing that you have to decide when you buy flyreels

capacity goes without saying that you have to have a reel that will hold all of your fly line on it.

In a lot of fisheries, a lot of circumstances, the reel is really a device for just holding the line

when you're finished at the end of the day or when you're walking from spot to spot and I'll get into those in the minute.

But the reel has got a hold, hold your fly line,

and in many cases the reel also has to hold a sufficient amount of material called backing.

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