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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

The Saltwater Fly Fishing in the Fall, Bait Fish Migration Podcast

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We haven't done a salt episode in a while... and we know a whole bunch of you folks fish salt. Tom's favorite time of year to do so is in the fall. Here are some great tips he's learned over the years.

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But really it's about pounding flies out there and sticking big fish.

0:05.0

Now James let me start that again that's horrible.

0:10.0

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.

0:22.8

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

0:25.8

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

0:28.2

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide

0:30.3

podcast.

0:30.9

This is Tom Rosenbauer.

0:32.4

And we haven't had a Saltwater

0:33.5

podcast in a while so let's talk about the fall migrations of game fish

0:40.6

particularly in the in the northeast and mid-Atlantic, but pretty much everywhere that you

0:47.6

have saltwater fish that you've got a change in weather. Weather patterns are changing, the temperatures are changing,

0:54.1

the winds are changing, prevailing winds are changing, and fish are going to move. Now the reason

1:00.2

fish are moving in the fall is because they're following baitfish migrations.

1:05.0

And because the baitfish, particularly the young baitfish, the younger-year baitfish, are always moving,

1:10.0

conditions are going to change daily, so if you're on a beach today and

1:14.4

it's totally dead you could come to the same beach tomorrow particularly if there's a little

1:18.8

bit of change in the weather and you could see bait and fish all over the place and this is going to change

1:24.7

this is going to change every day once the weather patterns start changing

1:29.4

there are places like the tip of Cape Cod and Block Island and Montauk and around the

1:37.6

Hatteras area where the fish will stay put for a long time because the fish know they're going to they're going to

1:46.2

intercept some bait fish in these spots or concentrations of baitfish in various places up and down the coast.

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