The Science behind the Everglades Storage Reservoir, with Steve Davis

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week begins a month of habitat/conservation podcasts as a celebration of Earth Month. We start the series off with Steve Davis [43:25], Chief Science Officer for the Everglades Foundation, and instead of talking about the boring aspects of Everglades Restoration like funding and politics we're delving deep into the science of how the water will be stored and cleaned, which plants aid in the cleanup, and how this process will aid in more fresh water to Florida Bay and the Everglades, and less polluted fresh water to estuaries on both coasts of Florida. We'll also talk about immediate benefits, but also how it will take seven years to completely fill the reservoir. And yes, we will talk about fly fishing topics this month in the Fly Box.

This week we have some great tips and questions, including:

I have a 5-weight, 6-weight, and 10-weight rod for fishing in the Mississippi. I may be catching fish up to 20 pounds. Do you think an 8-weight will handle them?

Three great tips from a listener on fishing from a canoe.

Is there a database where I can plug in the fly-tying materials I have and have it tell me what fly patterns I can tie?

What flies can I use India hen backs on?

I have trouble with my back cast hitting the water when I wade waist deep. How can I correct this problem?

I have been stumped by fish rising once and then not rising again for a long time. What are these fish doing and how can I target them?

What are your thoughts on intermediate lines for tarpon? Should I get tarpon flies in bigger hooks like 3/0 to 5/0?

Will a bit of bucktail under my pine squirrel streamers help to keep them from fouling?

A listener asked a bunch of specific fishing questions to a chat bot for a trip he was going to take to Grand Lake Stream in Maine and asked me to critique the answers he received.

How should I kill and keep the occasional stocked fish I want to eat?

If you see a nymph in the water that you want to imitate, how would you go about creating a pattern to match it?

Are hooks trending to shorter shanks and wider gaps? Is this a good thing?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.2	This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and this week we're going to be talking about the Everglades
0:20.9	because on April 7th, which is April 7th, 2023, which is the day when this podcast was
0:29.4	released, it's National Everglades Day and Orvis and I personally have been involved in the
0:38.0	issue of providing clean water to the Everglades and cleaning up the estuaries on both coasts and
0:47.7	Florida. It's been a long, been a long battle, been a long project and we're starting to see
0:53.7	some results and some shovels in the ground, which is great. A lot of it's been talk about budgets
1:02.1	and political things and quite frankly those are kind of boring to me. I thought we would talk to
1:09.1	Steve Davis, the Chief Scientist at Everglades Foundation about the science behind the reservoir
1:17.6	that's being built to send more fresh water south and to clean the water. I find
1:23.6	the science a lot more interesting than the other stuff so we're going to talk more about the science
1:28.1	behind it and I hope you find it interesting. But first, we're going to talk some fishing. We're
1:37.0	going to do the fly box and the fly box is where you ask questions or you offer tips and I try to
1:45.2	or I share your tips and if you have a question or a comment for the fly box you can send it to me
1:55.2	at podcastatorvis.com and I haven't had a lot of questions at least so I would encourage you
2:04.0	all to try to you know if you think of a question that you can't get answered and you can't find
2:13.2	the answer to send it to the fly box and I'll see if I can find an answer for you. Let's start the
2:19.6	fly box this week with an email from Logan from Rochester, Minnesota. I started fly fishing last
2:27.6	year and I found the podcast to be an incredible resource and look forward to the new episode every
2:32.1	week. In Southeast Minnesota I primarily fished the driftless streams for trout. I also spend time
2:38.8	fishing the upper Mississippi south of Lake Peppin where I target smallmouth bass while I
2:43.9	and occasionally large catfish and bofin. I typically target these fish with a spinning rod but I
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