Using Science to Catch More Bonefish with Justin Lewis

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

🗓️ 21 February 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview Justin Lewis, fisheries scientist and native of Grand Bahama Island, who is the Bahamas Initiative Manager for Bonefish Tarpon Trust. You’ll learn some fascinating science, what the Bahamas is doing to protect their near-pristine habitat, and some tips on catching bonefish based on the science we’ve learned from BTT’s research. In the fly box, we talk about storing waders, head cement, swinging flies, coiling line, where to attach droppers, fishing PCB-contaminated waters, indicator types, wet knot strength in tippet, and how to keep dry flies floating upright. Plus we have a couple great tips submitted by listeners.

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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.
0:20.1	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this podcast is being recorded on
0:26.7	February 16th 2016 and before we get started on the flybox this week, I thought I might kind of go over the kinds of
0:38.9	of questions that I can't or won't answer on the podcast. I just I just don't want you to be
0:45.7	disappointed that you you've sent in an email or a phone call to the
0:49.6	podcast and you get an answer from me now I don't have the chance to answer all of them on the air
0:56.5	but so let me just let me just help you
1:00.8	Gage the kind of questions that you send to me.
1:03.0	First of all, if you have a question about a product,
1:07.0	you know, I'm going to Colorado this August,
1:10.0	what fly rod should I get?
1:12.0	You're much better off. this August, what fly rod should I get?
1:13.6	You're much better off talking to the people in our tech line.
1:19.7	The toll-free number is 800, 548, 9, 548. The reason for this is that it's really more
1:28.0	of an interactive, iterative process and they know the right questions to ask you and you may have to go back and
1:35.6	forth several times in order to find the best fly rod or reel or line or whatever for
1:41.8	you. Me just answering a single question without knowing
1:46.7	a lot of things about where you going fishing and what kind of flies you like to use and what your casting style is and so on.
1:55.6	So try that tech line.
1:58.4	That's what they're there for.
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