Tips for Early Season Trout-Fishing Success, with BJ Gerhart

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week, my guest is guide BJ Gerhart [33:50], a longtime veteran guide at Three Rivers Ranch in Idaho and one of the savviest anglers I know. He shares his tips for getting around the common problems of early season trout fishing, mainly cold water and high flows.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some helpful tips from listeners, and some interesting questions for Tom, including:

If adult trout can’t see UV light, as you said in last week’s podcast, what should I do with all the UV and flashy materials I have in my fly-tying collection?
What kind of standard trout flies are closest to the kebari flies used in tenkara fishing?
When fishing a dry dropper, all the trout took my dry fly yet when I removed the nymph I stopped getting strikes. What caused this?
Why are beads on nymphs usually gold?
Why is my casting worse when I use beadhead flies?
What are the main differences between the 9-foot and the 8-foot, 5-inch Helios rods for a 10-weight line?
Why is fly fishing for salmon in Great Lakes streams not as popular as steelhead fishing?
When choosing a fly line for a two-handed rod, should I add the grain weight of the sinking head to the grain weight of the Skagit head?
A great tip for wading safety with a buddy
A listener raves about the Orvis rod repair team
Do you think I should stop trout fishing at 60 degrees just to be safe?
Are there public resources I can use to find out if a river might be too high to fish?
A listener gives a tip for adding a long mono rig easily without the need to tie a clinch knot to the permanent loop in a fly line.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.0	It is April 1st, but this is not an April Fool's podcast,
0:18.0	except for maybe one of the questions that I have in the flybox
0:22.0	I think might have been intended as an April Fool's phone call, but we'll find out a little bit later.
0:30.0	Anyway, my guest today is veteran guide B.J. Gerhart and B.J. is a guide that I've been
0:38.4	fishing with for many years. He's a good friend and we're going to be talking about fishing in the early spring and some tips on
0:47.3	you know how to how to attempt to catch some fish in the early season because it's often tough with cold water and high water.
0:55.2	So BJ's got some great tips that hopefully will help you have a better day on the water.
1:01.7	And speaking of B.J. B.J. is a guide at Three Rivers Ranch in Idaho and I have a
1:10.2	trip coming up September 28th to October 5th at Three Rivers Ranch. I'm going to
1:16.3	host the host the trip and this is one of my favorite places in the world. I love this lodge and the guides and the
1:26.4	staff there and the and the waters that they have around there and it's a great time of
1:30.8	year to fish that area because the warmer water and lower water of
1:36.4	August and September have gotten better the weather is usually very nice, nice and cool nights and often warm days,
1:47.4	although you never know you can have rain or snow that time of year, but we've always
1:52.0	had great fishing at that time of year, but we've always had great fishing at that time of year. And so if you're
1:55.4	interested in fishing with me at Three Rivers Ranch, there is a trip listed on
2:02.4	the Orvis website and you can sign up for it there.
2:05.6	Would love to love to see you there at Three Rivers Ranch in Idaho.
2:13.0	And before we begin the podcast,
2:16.0	people ask me to recommend products or talk about products occasionally here on the podcast
2:22.0	and I try to do it as often as I can.
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