Twelve Tips for Fishing Dry Flies, with Todd Tanner

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Todd Tanner [43:02] is a lifelong fly fisher and journalist and spent years as a guide on the Henry's Fork, one of the best (and toughest) dry-fly rivers in the world. He also prefers not to fish nymphs. Todd shares his 12 tips on improving your success with dry flies this week, and they are solid and helpful.

In the Fly Box this week, we have a great and varied selection of questions and tips from listeners, including:

I don't see any brook or brown trout in the usual places this fall. Are they all upstream spawning?
Two great tips from a listener for beginning fly tiers.
Is a 10-foot 4-weight a good rod for both Euro nymphing and dry-fly fishing?
A great tip from a listener on how to prevent your dry fly from getting too soaked before retrieving it for the next cast.
A listener makes the point that watershed-level stream restoration is often not possible.
If my stream is stocked with rainbows, will I find them in other parts of the river system and will they survive?
Can I use a less expensive spool of fluorocarbon spinning line instead of the expensive stuff sold for fly fishing?
If I use only the tip of a CDC feather, can I use the remaining fibers for something else?
Kudos from a listener on a wonderful experience he had in the Orvis retail store in Atlanta
What kind of insects are most common in infertile streams?
Is there a reason Orvis makes a 10 ½ foot and 11-foot H3 rod and not a 10-footer?
A great rattlesnake story from a listener
I found a whole bunch of trout rising in a seam and tried everything but could not catch them. I tried all kinds of dries and nymphs and changed my tippet and my angle of approach. What do you think the fish were eating?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast.
0:14.0	This is your host Tom Rosenberg and my guest this week is my old friend Todd Tanner
0:20.0	and Todd has been on the podcast before and his podcasts are always really popular.
0:25.0	Today he's going to be talking to us about 12 tips for fishing dry flies.
0:31.0	If you've ever been in a hatch or you've ever been in a situation where you think the fish are going to feed on the surface and you can't get them to take. I advise you strongly to listen to this podcast. Todd is a dryfly
0:46.3	aficionado he prefers to fish dries he loves fishing dries he's been a guide
0:51.8	on the Henry's Fork and lifelong fly angler and he's got some really
0:57.1	good tips for you. So I think he'll enjoy this one.
1:01.7	Before we get into the flybox, I only have one announcement this week and that is Helios
1:07.6	three rods are on sale.
1:10.9	You can save about 200 bucks on the fabulous Helios 3 fly rod, considered the finest fly rod in the world by many, many people.
1:22.0	Super light, accurate, strong, and 100% made in USA. So they are on sale. Not all
1:30.5	models are available, some of them are sold out, but you go on the Orvis website or you go into
1:36.3	your Orvis store or Orvis dealer and check them out, you'll find out which ones are available.
1:48.3	Helios 3 rods don't go on sale very often. I don't know if they've ever been on sale before. I'll leave it to you to figure out why they're on sale but anyway take advantage of this
1:58.9	while you can. All right let's do the flybox. This is where you ask questions or send in a
2:09.7	comment on perhaps a question that somebody had before and you had a little bit more to add to my answer, which is always helpful and I thank you for those.
2:21.0	Or just ask a question yourself and you can just type it into your
2:26.4	email or you can attach a voice file with your question and maybe I'll read it on the air.
2:32.8	The first question this week is from Sam from West Virginia.
2:39.8	I'm a new fly fisherman having just picked it up in the last few months. I've been fishing a stream
2:44.7	which has wild browns and brooks since late September. However, the last couple of weeks I've not even seen
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