Tom Interviews his Mentor, the Legendary Lewis Coleman

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This is a special time of year for me as it is the start of trout season in my hometown. I treat today like a religious holiday. it seems appropriate then that I should interview my mentor, and someone who many view as a fly-fishing god, Lewis Coleman. Lewis has taught some of the best in the world his techniques and he will share some of those with us today.

There is no fly-box section in this show as I wanted to give Lewis as much time as we could to go over his insight into spey casting, how he is pushing the limits in Tenkara and all about how he runs his lodges all around the world. We are lucky to have him on the show.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed
0:14.6	fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:19.6	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer.
0:24.3	And it's a very special podcast.
0:26.5	In fact, it's a very special day to me.
0:29.1	Hopefully this podcast is going to come to you on April 1st.
0:32.1	And April 1st has always been a special day for me because I grew up in New York State and when I was a when I was a kid, it was the
0:41.8	April 1st was the opening day of trout season and in those days there were very few year-round trout streams so it was really the first time you could go trout fishing and I always considered April 1st a holy day of obligation and I would skip school or skip church or do whatever I had to do to go fishing on April 1st. So because it's a really special day for me every year
1:06.8	and I still try to celebrate April 1st
1:10.0	as the opening day of trout season,
1:11.9	even though I live in Vermont and it doesn't open for a couple
1:14.5	weeks.
1:15.5	I want to interview, I want to do a phone interview with the person who has probably been my biggest mentor in fly fishing and not that that should be important to you that he's my mentor but this guy is got advice that is just beyond reproach and it's if you listen to the fly
1:37.1	cast for advice on how to make your fly fishing better there's no better
1:42.4	person to listen to than Lewis Coleman.
1:46.9	He's been all over the world. He's been a marketing advisor to the owners of Orvis company for many years and he's a legend here in the Orvis company and he's a
1:58.0	legend here in the Orvis company and he's personal.
2:02.0	You know, he's as I said he's my mentor I learned nearly all of the
2:07.6	important stuff in fly fishing from Lewis Coleman so let me try to get him here on his sat phone. I got to
2:16.1	get him on a satellite phone because you never know where he's going to be. He's
2:20.0	supposed to call in because it's tough for me to reach him but he told us he'd give us a few minutes
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