Trouble in the Everglades

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

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is an interview with an old friend and fishing buddy, Mike Connor of Bullsugar.org. Mike is a fishing guide whose livelihood has been threatened by the inaction and foot-dragging of politicians on the Lake Okeechobee/Everglades water issues, as Mike’s home waters are at the mouth of the St. Lucie River. We don’t like to talk politics in the podcast but unfortunately this issue, one of the biggest environmental issues in the United States, needs a political solution as the science has been completed, the funds have been approved by voters and Congress—but somehow not much has happened. Of course we also talk lots of fishing in this podcast, with a clarification on what the Tactical Fly and hook series is, why few flies are colored white, the five easiest but effective trout flies to tie, lots of discussion on head cements for fly tying, more on sight-fishing for trout, casting off to the side,—and other earth-shaking issues.

Transcript

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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 fly fishing
0:15.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:22.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast is being
0:26.0	recorded on December 22nd 2016 and a little bit later in the show, I'm going to apologize in advance because we're going to get a little political.
0:39.0	We don't like to get political on the podcast. I don't like to involve politics with fly fishing
0:44.4	but in this particular issue the Everglades restoration or the Everglades
0:51.8	water flow issue, it's more or less a political issue.
0:57.0	So I apologize, please bear with it.
1:01.0	I know that a lot of you fast forward through the Conservation
1:06.4	Podcast but this is an important one and so I hope you'll I hope you'll hang in there for the entire podcast.
1:16.4	But let's get to the flybox and talk about fishing.
1:20.8	Hey Tom, this is Steve from Washington, D.C. I recently was on your website shopping for flies
1:26.6	and was mightily induced by a series known as The Tactical Series, which have a lot of
1:33.1	punkson on them and just seem that have been tied in a manner that is
1:41.4	either new or different and I guess I'm asking because I couldn't see an explanation for it and rest assured I bought some
1:48.8	I didn't see an explanation for it on the website. What's with the tactical series besides the fact that the things I
1:55.8	obviously can see which is for example there's no bar on the hook which is nice and
2:00.5	I just wonder what's the theme there or what's the inspiration for it.
2:05.0	I confess I haven't even had him out on the water yet but listening to this
2:09.8	week's podcast for some reason brought this question to my mind. It's I think a reasonable
2:18.2	opportunity for you to promote what looks like a terrific and new or of this product, but a little
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