Tom's ten excuses for getting skunked and what you can learn from them

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

🗓️ 15 April 2013

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, based on my experience of getting skunked trout fishing, I thought I would give you 10 reasons for getting skunked. I mainly concentrate on early season fishing—but these excuses are also good any time during the season!

In the Fly Box section we talk about :

-over-lining fly rods,
-barbless hooks,
-laying fish on the grass to photograph them,
-matching leader with rod length,
-rod and blank weights,
-and some other fun stuff.

Questions this week came from as far away as Australia and the UK, and as close as Connecticut.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Tony, Sanderson calling again from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
0:04.8	On the way to the river here at 745 Atlantic time.
0:10.0	I just want to thank you for the tips I was able to pick up over the winter from your small street
0:16.4	Trot guide. Some invaluable knowledge was imparted to me this winter as I tested off the gear last week.
0:25.0	One comment and I know you've written about family fly fishing and the like,
0:30.0	but when I was given my license at the local fly shop, in fact the only fly shop in my city of 500,000 people
0:38.0	was that I saw a guy leaving with the whole fly fishing outfit and you know it was just it was just
0:48.1	nice to see because you know he was a middle-aged man and you don't see it anymore.
0:54.0	You know, so I almost kind of wanted to say, hey,
0:56.1	I'll take y'o, but, you know, the setting wasn't there.
0:59.5	So just a suggestion is, you know, how to get, you know, 40 year old sort of, you know, like me, late 30s,
1:10.0	into fly fishing, you know, when you have some families and social and work
1:16.0	pressures on you I mean for me it's a fantastic relief so any suggestions on
1:21.9	trying to get my friends involved in the trying to instruments of
1:27.0	fishing out about testing.
1:29.0	Thanks, Tom, and I keep up in your work.
1:32.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing
1:45.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
1:52.4	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this is your host Tom
1:56.0	Rosenbauer and this podcast is being recorded on April 15th 2013 So I'm not quite making one a week, I'm trying. I've had lots of good
2:07.8	questions and if you don't hear your questions on air, it's either because I don't know the answer. I don't want to answer
2:16.0	your question or I might be saving it for later because it might be another full podcast and I already had an idea for this week's
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