Walleye on the fly, with Ted Putnam

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 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It’s not difficult to catch walleye on the fly if you know where and when to go after them. I have gotten frequent requests from listeners on how to catch walleye on the fly and have never been able to find the right expert guest. Then, a few weeks ago while filming a bass fishing episode for the upcoming second season of the Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide TV show, I found my expert—Ted Putnam of Hawk Lake Lodge. Ted has shown numerous experts how to catch not only just walleye but trophy walleye on the fly, and he shares his expertise on when and where, what flies to use, what lines to use, and how to retrieve the fly. In the Fly Box this week, we have the following questions: Why can’t I get bass to eat my mouse flies? Why don’t the fish on my river eat salmon flies? How often can I fish a population of trout and will it hurt them? More discussions on fish and changes in barometric pressure. (This will be an ongoing discussion) Why do I keep losing fish when using a heavily weighted barbless fly? Can I use my 9-foot 5 weight rod for bass fishing? What is the strangest fly material you have ever used? When should I use Comparaduns? What kind of roadkill can I use for fly tying? Why did mahi in the Gulf Stream ignore my flies? How does water temperature affect fish and insects? Why do people not fish dry flies much any more?

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This podcast is being reported on June 20th, 2019.
0:17.0	And a little bit later in the show, we're going to be talking about catching walley on the fly.
0:25.2	It's something that I get requests for frequently.
0:29.5	How do you catch while on the fly?
0:31.2	What do I do?
0:31.9	What flies do I use, etc and I am not an expert on
0:36.2	catching while I on a fly but I was at Hawk Lake Lodge a few weeks ago filming the
0:46.7	next season of the Orvis TV show and was lucky enough, both Mark Melnick, the host of the new Fly Fisher and I were lucky enough to get big wall eyes
0:50.8	on the fly.
0:51.6	So we found an expert.
0:54.5	I've had a lot of difficulty finding an expert
0:59.2	on catching wall eye on the fly,
1:01.7	but Ted Putnam, the owner of Hawk Lake Lodge is a is a wall-eye
1:06.0	fanatic and probably knows more about catching big wall-eye on a fly than anyone I
1:10.6	know so we I gave Ted a call and we'll have a show on catching walley on the fly.
1:21.1	But let's do the flybox first and if you have some questions that you'd like to ask
1:28.6	you can contact me at podcast at Orvis.com and either send me an email with your question or
1:40.6	record a voice file on your phone and include that with your
1:47.7	message. We do also have a podcast request line at 802 362 8800 where you can ask a question and leave a
1:59.1	voicemail. I just want to urge you to make sure that you have a strong cell phone connection because I had a couple of pretty good questions
2:08.2	recently when I went through the questions in I think calling from their car and it cut in and out and couldn't
2:21.1	really understand what they were saying so unfortunately I was unable to play their questions
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