Podcast: Secrets of an Award-Winning Fly-Fishing Guide

[Interview starts at 38:28]

On the most recent Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast, Tom Rosenbuaer’s visitor is Antoine Bissieux, Orvis-Endorsed Information of the 12 months for 2025, based mostly in Connecticut. Antoine, in any other case often called The French Fly Fisherman, guides totally on the Farmington River. He fishes with and communicates recurrently with the highest aggressive fly fishers in France, and has developed strategies of fishing nymphs and dry flies, in addition to dry/dropper setups tailored from what he has discovered from these world-class anglers. You’ll be taught some new methods to make your fly fishing simpler and extra attention-grabbing, irrespective of the place you fish.

Within the Fly Field, Tom solutions questions from listeners, together with:

How can I inform what line is on my previous reel?
Ought to I get a 3-weight or 4-weight rod for small streams?
Do these units to take away flies from fish shortly actually work?
I’ve seen carp opening up their mouths and taking repeated gulps of meals from the floor. Is that this widespread and what do you name it?
A fly store instructed me that utilizing tippet rings will not be a good suggestion as a result of I’d break off fish. Is that this true?
A listener reviews on situations on the rivers in western North Carolina after the floods.
I put a nick in my fly line and have to chop off the final 12 inches. Can I nonetheless use this line?
My foam flies preserve touchdown upside-down. How can I appropriate this?
How ought to I fish streamers in clear swimming pools the place you possibly can see proper to the underside?
How ought to I solid to a fish that’s straight under a department trailing within the water?
A suggestion from a listener on utilizing a room dehumidifier to dry out waders and boots.
Can I rig two flies on a blood knot, utilizing either side of the knot, one longer and one shorter?
Would a 9-foot, 9-weight rod be the suitable one for fishing in Chesapeake Bay? And may I exploit the identical rod for steelhead in Michigan?
I see quite a lot of goose feathers on my native golf course. Can I exploit these for biots on flies and which half ought to I exploit?
What can I do with saltwater flies the place the hook has gotten barely rusty?