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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, this is Tom Rosenbauer, and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide

podcast. I think this week we'll do both a freshwater, a trout tip, trout

steelhead salmon and salt water tip.

So the fresh water tip will be kind of short and sweet,

and the salt water tip will be quite a bit longer.

So this might be a long podcast.

Bear with me. me first our freshwater tip

Stephen Canopko wrote us on Facebook and said I hear about mending line I'm a novice fly fisher and I've been listening to your podcast and I hear about

mending the line I did a Google search and I wasn't able to really find out anything about

mending line so what is mending line and how do you do it? Well, mending line is probably

one of the easiest things to do in fly fishing. If you were standing here, I could

teach you how to mend line in about 15 seconds.

But we'll go into it a little bit because it's a lot harder just using audio to teach you something than it is to show you.

Why do you want to mend line? Well, when you, let's say that

you're fishing in a river and you're throwing 90 degrees to the current, so you're throwing what we call across the river, across stream.

And as your line hits the water, it's gonna get a big belly in the middle of it, in the middle of the current between

you and the fly.

There's a couple of reasons for this.

One is that the water in the middle of the river is typically faster than the water at the far bank.

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