Why Young People Fly Fish, Part 1, with Austin Boswell

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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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, my guest is Austin Boswell [37:57], owner and guide for Eastern Oregon River Outfitters. I wanted to talk to Austin because I'm doing a two-part series on why young people are suddenly getting into fly fishing after many years of it being mostly an older person's pastime. I got into fly fishing at a young age, but in those days all the fly fishers I knew were older, and today we're seeing a great influx of young people taking up the sport. Why? I don't have any answers so for the next two podcasts I am going to be interviewing two fly fishers under the age of 30 to find out why it is so intriguing to them.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some interesting questions and comments, including:

I found my fly line wrapped over itself on my reel. How did that happen and how can I prevent it?

My normally easy-to-approach brook trout have become really spooky in the low water of summer. Will they be easier once the water levels come back up? Is my fly line scaring them and what can I do?

How long do felt soles last?

When did Orvis stop impregnating bamboo rods and why?

A great quote on harvesting fish by blogger and author Bill Robichaud

Is there a standard for reel foot sizing?

Are the reel feet different in different-sized reels?

What taper model are the various Recon models based on?

Why do my Chubby Chernobyl flies not float well?

Do trout eat woolly bear caterpillars?

How do I cast an open loop when using indicators or dry droppers?

Why do caddis flies and midges have a pupa stage and mayflies don't?

How do I mix dubbings with different textures in a coffee grinder?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the Oravis Flyfishing Podcast.
0:14.4	This is your host, Tom Rosenthaler, and this week my guest is Austin Boswell, and Austin
0:22.4	is a young flyfisher who's started his own successful guiding and outfitting business.
0:30.0	In the next two podcasts, this week and next week, I'm kind of exploring young people in flyfishing
0:38.8	and why we're seeing a great increase in young people in flyfishing, which I think, by the way,
0:47.0	is one of the most exciting, is the most exciting thing I've ever seen in my long career in flyfishing.
0:53.5	But we've got a lot of new people getting into it, and I wanted to explore for both my education
0:59.9	and yours why flyfishing has suddenly appealed to young people so much. And it started before COVID.
1:08.8	It wasn't because of the COVID pandemic. It started, you know, maybe five, six, seven, eight,
1:16.7	nine years ago. And so we're kind of going to kind of explore with a couple of young people,
1:23.6	one, someone who's in the business, Austin, and then the following week, just a college student
1:29.4	that I know who is into flyfishing. We're going to talk to them about what they value in flyfishing
1:34.6	and what intrigues them about flyfishing. So a little bit different kind of topic, but I hope you
1:39.8	enjoy it. Oh, and by the way, I know that some of you follow my flytime live online flytime classes
1:51.4	on Mondays, and especially enjoy the tie-offs with the great Tim Flagler, where we compete in both
2:02.2	tie the same fly, and then people get to vote online in real time. We're going to be doing that live
2:07.8	at the International Flytying Symposium in New Jersey in November. So you can look that up online,
2:15.0	if you're interested in attending that, and seeing us go head-to-head online, both the Saturday and
2:21.0	Sunday of the show. And I'm also going to be teaching flytime classes at the International Flytying
2:28.2	Symposium. One class on dryflies and one class on nymphs, and I'm going to be tying some of my own
2:34.0	patterns. Now these classes aren't free, and they're going to I think they're going to fill up quickly
2:39.0	according to the organizers. So if you do want to come to one of these classes, you should contact
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