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.

This week, I'd like to give you 10 tips on waiting safety.

It's been a frequently requested topic in the last month or so.

People have been coming into our Facebook page at Orvis.com

slash Facebook and requesting

Podcasts on waiting safety so it's good time a year for this and particularly if you're thinking of taking your child or maybe a buddy who's never done much, buddy who's never done much waiting in moving water with you when the season opens this year, when the ice goes

away where you are, if you're in Florida

when it warms up enough for you to venture outside your house. Here's some tips on

waiting safety and I'm not going to talk about the Felt versus Rubber Soul issue because we talked

about it in last week's podcast and I don't want to rehash the same stuff.

So if you are interested in the felt versus rubber topic, please go back and listen to last

week's podcast and then you'll be all caught up and ready to listen to this one.

So 10 tips for waiting safety. Number one, wear a waiter belt and

if you're unsteady on your feet take a waiting staff. Now waiter belts are extremely important and a lot of us forget them. We just don't feel like putting them on or we forget them on or we forget to belt them on or we've lost it or whatever.

But they're really important and the reason is that,

it's both from the safety and a comfort standpoint.

You got a waiter belt cinch tightly around your waist.

When you fall in the water, chances are unless you get fully submerged,

if you just fall in and get right up, you're not going to get water down inside your

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