Wild and Crazy Stories from an Award-Winning Fly-Fishing Guide, with Chip Swanson

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

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

I take guilty pleasure in hearing horror stories from guides about their worst clients or other crazy things that happen on the river. Orvis-Endorsed Guide of the Year for 2019 Chip Swanson [41:00] is a great storyteller and has had some wild and funny incidents on the river over the years. I think everyone will enjoy these stories but just a warning—although not R-rated, some of his stories mention sensitive body parts so if your kids listen to podcasts with you, you may want to preview them first. Nothing very raunchy but you have been warned! Rated PG-13.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some great questions and tips including:

I fish a lake that is stocked with rainbows and has a small tributary stream. Do you think the rainbows will run up into it?
Do you have any tips for being stealthy on a trout stream other than not stepping right into the water?
Can I use a sinking Salmon Poly Leader for trout?
When do you extend the butt section of your leader?
I am using a switch rod for distance in warm water fishing and have tried all kinds of lines but am not happy with my casting. Do you have any tips?
Any tips or tricks on how to travel; with waders and wading boots? I am concerned with my wet wading boots.
Can trout smell us and should I worry about it?
Do Zero-weight fly rods exist and what are they used for?
A tip from a listener about learning to cast at all angles to your body without moving your feet.
I fished a cold Colorado tailwater in the morning and a local angler told me I was on the water too early. Why?
All the hoppers I see have green, brown, or black wings. So why do we put white wings on many of our hopper patterns?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast this is your host Tom Rosenbower and this week we have what I think is a fun
0:18.2	podcast for you it's kind of crazy crazy stories from a fishing guide.
0:25.0	I'm going to be talking to award-winning
0:28.0	Orvis Endorse Guide of the Year
0:31.0	for, I think, 2019, Chip Swanson, Chip's a great storyteller and when we get
0:36.6	together, I always ask them, tell me some horror stories with clients.
0:41.0	I love hearing these things and guys won't share those with everybody but
0:45.8	Chep and I are good friends and so I asked him to share some of these stories with you.
0:51.2	Now fair warning that I would call this podcast rated
0:58.1	PG. Usually the podcasts are are suitable for all ages and I don't I don't think there's anything
1:07.0	really objectionable in in chip stories but there's a little there's a little off-collar stuff and so just a warning if you do have your kids
1:18.4	listening to this you may want to listen to it first before you play it with your kids just to make sure there's nothing in there
1:26.3	that offends you or your family so you have been warned but I again I don't I don't think it's that
1:32.4	bad I don't think it's that bad. I don't think it's anything they
1:34.1	wouldn't hear in the school yard. But just to make sure, maybe you ought to review it first
1:39.6	before I share it with your kids. And I hope you enjoy the podcast and before we do the fly box
1:46.5	just a heads up for a product that I'm really I'm really fond of that I use myself a lot and something that maybe a lot of people pass by
1:58.9	when they're considering flyboxes. I am not a big fan of foam slotted fairly narrow flyboxes except for nymphs. I think that by putting any kind of any dry flies or
2:18.4	streamers or anything that's bulky in these in these slotted fairly thin boxes you crush the hackles you crush the
2:27.4	wings on dry flies and it just gets them out of shape and and you know the foam slotted streamer boxes most of them are just big and big and
2:37.4	bulky and you know as a waiting angler most of the time I'm a waiting angler, I can't carry those big streamer boxes with me and I do like to have some streamers with me when I'm on the river.
2:50.0	So I keep both my dry flies and my streamers in flyboxes called the Mejo Clearcase flyboxes.
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