Podcast: All About Bamboo Fly Rods, with Shawn Brillon

[Interview starts at 45:09]

Wish to understand how a bamboo fly rod is made? How lengthy it takes to make one? What number of completely different fingers contact an Orvis bamboo fly rod earlier than you (and your kids and grandchildren) turn out to be its fortunate proprietor? And eventually, what’s so nice about bamboo fly rods? How are they completely different from fiberglass and graphite, and what’s going to they do for you on the water? Tom Rosenbauer interview Orvis bamboo fly rod craftsman Shawn Brillon , who loves to speak bamboo rods as a lot as he enjoys making and fishing them.

Within the Fly Field, Tom solutions some nice questions and ideas from listeners, together with:

• I might catch rising trout in a single a part of a pool, however once I moved 50 meters upstream I couldn’t catch any. What was happening?
• How do I decide the right measurement chief if I’m going from a single measurement 16 fly to a hopper or multiple-nymph rig?
• What are your ideas on weed guards on flies?
• I caught a dragonfly on my Elk Hair Caddis. Am I the primary?
• I hooked a trout within the nook of the mouth and even with a barbless hook it bled and appeared like it might die. Would it not have been higher if I left the fly within the fish?
• I’ve been fishing with an 8-weight taking pictures head outfit for striped bass and halibut. I need to catch corbina, however I hear they’re spooky. Do you assume my 8-weight is simply too heavy?
• I hold seeing these giant fish rising in a closely pressured river however can’t catch them on any multi-fly rig. What can I do to idiot these fish?
• What do you do to remain in form for fishing?
• What are some great benefits of an enormous dry fly over a bobber?
• Does bead measurement actually matter relating to attractiveness to trout? And is there a seasonality to what colour beads it is best to use?
• I’ve been catching catfish on a fly. Does anybody else do that and is it a “factor” or is it bycatch?
• I went to Banff to fish they usually required that every one my deal with, together with strains and leaders, couldn’t have been used for 45 days and needed to be cleaned and handled. What do you consider the potential for issues like strains and leaders to switch invasive species?