What's the First Fly to Tie On? With Award-Winning Outfitter Tim West

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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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Breckenridge Outfitters is this year's winner of the Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year Award and Tim West [44:07] is the glue that holds this fabulous guide service together. In the interview, Tim talks about how to decide which fly to tie on at the beginning of the day, or when you first approach the water. Do you start with a streamer, a nymph, a wet fly, a dry fly, or some combination of them? What clues should you observe to decide which one to try?

We have some fascinating questions this week in the fly box, questions I am sure many of you think about yourself, including:

Can you explain the difference between fast, medium, and slow fly rods?
I noticed a bright orange sludge-like material on the bottom of my stream. Should I stay away from this one?
Do you think kayaks spook trout more than belly boats?
After a rod, reel, and line, what piece of gear should I consider next?
When tying to fill a fly box, should I tie one of each pattern or 4 or 5 of the same one?
Is there a disadvantage of using a perfection loop instead of a non-slip mono loop when tying on a streamer?
If I see a heron in a pool in a small stream, should I move on and avoid that pool?
Would it work to have a leader with a very long butt section, a short transition section, and a very long tippet?
Why do trout eat or reject an imitation of a midge pupa in a lake?
Do you think a 5-weight outfit is a good rod for taking to Alaska?
Why don't my marabou flies stay fluffy once they have been used?
A listener tip for tying a dropper to the bend of a hook.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Corvus Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer, and my
0:15.9	guest this week is Tim West, who is the owner of Breckenridge Outfitters in Breckenridge, Colorado.
0:25.0	Breckenridge Outfitters recently won the Orvis Endor
0:29.0	Outfitter of the Year Award, which is a highly coveted award that is decided by customers
0:36.3	not but not by us but by feedback we get from customers and it's richly
0:41.5	deserved Breckenridge has won a number and it's richly deserved.
0:43.0	Breckenridge has won a number of other Orvus-endorced awards in the past for their guide service.
0:50.0	It's a great shop.
0:52.0	I'm going to be speaking there this July and really looking forward to seeing the gang there.
0:59.0	But Tim is going to talk to us today about how to pick the right fly. In other words, how do you decide
1:10.6	whether to fish a dry fly or a nymph or a streamer on any given day. It's a problem
1:17.4	that we all have and I struggle with it myself and never I can never quite
1:21.4	figure out which to start with and a lot of it is
1:24.9	intuition and guesswork and whimsy but Tim's going to give us some some solid
1:30.6	advice on how to decide what kind of fly to pick when you first get to the river.
1:38.8	If you want to go fishing with me, I am hosting a trip at the wonderful Three Rivers Ranch in
1:48.1	Warm River Idaho. The trip is September 28th to October 5th.
1:53.4	It's seven nights lodging and six days of guided fishing
1:59.4	and it's a wonderful time of year to be in Idaho.
2:02.6	The guides there are amazing,
2:04.6	and we fish some pretty special places.
2:06.6	So if you're interested in fishing with me this fall,
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