Traveling with fly-fishing gear, with Seth Berger
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
This week is my guest Seth Berger [1:00:18], Fly Fishing Travel Specialist with Orvis Adventures. In his job, Seth visits Orvis-endorsed operations around the world and always packs his fishing gear, so he's a great resource for advising us how to travel with rods, waders, and flies—how to pack them, what to carry on, and pitfalls you should avoid. Seth also talks about what to pack, and items that are often forgotten or ignored by traveling anglers. Anyone who gets on a plane, whether it's a short hop or an international flight, will benefit from his knowledge.
In the Fly Box this week, we have some great questions and comment that run the gamut of the fly-fishing experience, including:
A listener who recommends the mono rig method, which is different from the standard Euro nymphing setup. And tries to tell me 20lb. mono casts just as easily as fly line (I'm not buying it)
Why not put a tippet ring on the end of a poly leader? I've used straight monofilament for a leader for bass and bream.
Why do I need a tapered leader, and do I need tippet?
When you fish two dry flies, what should the distance between them be?
Do I need to learn entomology to pick flies?
Is there any difference between picking flies for small streams vs. bigger rivers?
What do you look for to help you choose a fly?
Can I fish steelhead with my 9-foot 5-weight rod?
Is it true that lighter lines cast better in the wind because they have less air resistance?
Have you ever fished with just a bead on a hook?
Some great suggestions from a listener on how to keep fly tying materials away from young children.
I am coming from Korea to the US. Will I have problems brining flies and fly tying materials into the country?
Have you ever tried wiggle nymphs?
Why do Euro nymphers stand in the water and make short upstream casts while people with conventional lines try to fish as far away as possible?
Why don't we see a lot of blue streamers?
How deep can I effectively fish with a fly rod?
How can I tie patterns with partridge feathers smaller than size 16?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | This is your host Tom Rosemar and this week we're going to talk a little bit about travel |
| 0:18.3 | with fly fishing here. |
| 0:20.2 | My guest is Seth Berger who is a travel specialist with Orvis adventures and Seth has the unfortunate |
| 0:29.1 | job of traveling around and visiting Orvis endorsed operations or evaluating new operations |
| 0:38.3 | for Orvis endorsed lodges internationally so we can all feel very sorry for Seth. |
| 0:45.6 | But because that travels a lot and I know Seth and he never travels with the fishing |
| 0:50.8 | gear. |
| 0:51.8 | He's got a lot of experience in packing and what to pack and how to pack it and what |
| 0:57.4 | you can carry on and what you can't and so on. |
| 1:00.5 | And I get a lot of these questions frequently in the podcast so I figured I would interview |
| 1:06.0 | Seth and we'll talk a little bit with this expert from the Orvis Adventures Department. |
| 1:14.1 | So hope you enjoy it and hope you learned something I know I did. |
| 1:19.0 | But before we do that, let's do the fly box and the fly boxes where you ask questions |
| 1:27.1 | and I try to answer them sometimes. |
| 1:31.0 | I don't answer all your questions so if you don't hear your question read on the air, |
| 1:36.9 | it's either because I just answered that question a couple of podcasts ago or perhaps I just |
| 1:43.7 | didn't think it was an appropriate question that would be of interest to the kind of a |
| 1:49.4 | broad group of podcasts listeners because we have listeners from all over the world. |
| 1:54.0 | So I try to answer questions that I think will be valuable to the rest of the listeners |
| 2:01.1 | and not just the individual who asked the question. |
| 2:05.7 | So anyway, let's start with an oh, by the way, if you have a question for me, you can send |
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