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A great show this week!
I had the chance to sit down and talk with Simon Perkins, the newest addition here at Orvis Rod & Tackle about the Fly Fishing Film Tour as well as his own short film, Sipping Dries. We ran the trailer in the podcast feed a few weeks ago. As the main event, I interview my friend Dave Brown of Dave Brown Outfitters on fishing taiwaters, as it seems you guys can't get enough of this topic! In addition, I take a few questions from the podcast listener line.
We moved the podcast studio, again. As a result we have had some tech issues with the sound which kept us "off the air" last week. I think it's all worked out. Thanks for sticking with us!
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Guide John Andrews of High Lonesome Ranch was out prospecting on
some ponds when he ran into this healthy, gorgeous trout.
photo by Mark Weaver
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The name "sulphur" (or "sulfur") is attached to several mayfly species in the genus Ephemerella. The "big sulphurs" of the East are usually E. invaria (also called the "light Hendrickson"), and its smaller cousin is E. dorothea dorothea, the pale evening dun. There are other species, even from other genera, also called "sulphurs" locally, and frankly it doesn't really matter. If there are yellowish mayflies. . .
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“Yeah, that’s right: largemouth” came the reply from the passenger seat. We were making our way through the Paris rush hour en route to make a promotional film for a carp fishery owner in central France. Apparently, the owner had stocked half a dozen bass in an effort to keep the crayfish numbers down, but they had never bred. As we thundered along “le autoroute” in some horrendous weather, I wracked my brains trying to remember if I had packed any baitfish patterns. As it turned out, . . .
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Nick Drain and his favorite rod, Madison, with a fall brown trout on the Missouri River.
photo courtesy Nick Drain
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TO: The Orvis Customer Service Department, please share this story in hopes my request finds its way to the right people.
I recently sent a letter to the rod repair folks in your company explaining the circumstances surrounding how my rod was broken. I explained when and where I purchased it, and without question they fulfilled your warranty as outlined in your catalog. The replacement rod arrived last week, and I now realize I have an additional request, which I will. . .
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Huge brown trout are wary about leaving their secret haunts, but they'll strike a
large fly because they think it's worth the effort.
photo by Tommy Lynch
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There is nothing more intense than casting large flies over and over, waiting for the big payoff, like putting coins in a slot machine. Then, finally, “Here he comes!” The wolf shows himself coming out of deep dark to launch a campaign of pain against your fly. A couple of twitches and a pause, and you have made an idiot out of an otherwise wary, unapproachable, double-digit. . .
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The bull trout holds a special fascination for me. As a small-stream, native brook trout kind of guy, the thought of a 16-pound meat-eating cousin of the 6-inchers I'm accustomed to is enthralling. This video by Andres Gonzalez of Dave Brown Outfitters in British Columbia, offers a guide's-eye view of. . .
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It's not the greatest photo, but ai-yai-yai what a trout.
photo courtesy Challhuaquen Lodge
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Larry Isham from Challhuaquen Lodge sent us this photo, along with the story behind it. Apparently, MarKus K. was fishing from a boat on the Futaleufú River right in front of the lodge, and he made a long cast with a Woolly Bugger under some willows on the bank. This beast took the fly on a dead drift, and put his 3X tippet to the test. The fish measured 32.5 inches and weighed in at 15.5 pounds. That explains the wide grins, methinks.
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The Lower Savage is home to some gorgeous, but wary, wild brown trout.
photo by Jim Lampros
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It’s hard to say whether the complete absence of light or its presence in unexpected places is more haunting. Driving rural Appalachian highways in the dead of night, you’ll see plenty of both, and as I white-knuckled my way around this turn and that bend headed for the Savage River and its wild brook and brown trout, I thought to myself, “This had better be worth it. . . . ”
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Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week's collection is very U.S-centric, but there are lots of great fish and fine filmmaking. I'm still a bit curious about where all the great New Zealand footage is from 2012. C'mon, Kiwis, get on the ball. Isn't it. . .
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