Fly Fishing Consultant Podcast

How to take care of your fly rod and how not to break it. Learn from Rob's mistakes. A rod in its tube (sock may be included) is the safest place to keep your rods. You will eventually break a rod its most likely going to be your fault. Avoid not having your rod or part of your rod for half a season and avoid rod repair fees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My first podcast request. This one is about waders. When do you need waders? What features should you look for? How many 'bells and whistles' do you need? What about durability? Cost? Rob covers everything you need to know about waders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is wet wading? Where is its safe? When is it practical? Rob covers how to go in and get wet and come back home after a fun day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Essential gear for your car when going fishing. Rob loves a road trip. Some have had their issues like a boat trailer coming off a trailer hitch on the highway or the door chime not turning off. Rob often sleeps in his car and travels in all weather conditions. Listen as he talks about fly fishing and road trips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its been 1 year since I quit my job as a suit to fly fish full time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It finally happened. Rob landed his first Northern Snakehead and it was a true river monster. Listen as he recounts the trials and tribulations in his quest to catch this fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New insight into the continuing challenge of fly fishing for Snakeheads. Rob spent years trying to catch these slimy, non-native fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A round up of the events inside the rain soakd booth in Waynesboro aka Rainsboro Virginia. Over 6" of rain fell on the outdoor event held inside a tent. The power went out. The adjacent river flooded, the tent was inundated. We were all cold and wet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Survivabililty of Peanut the Cat near National Airport. A cat was lost at the airport while loading onto a plane. A "cat lady" was putting out food for it by Gravelly Point. We know that food was eaten by rats. The rats probably beat up peanut and sent it on its way. She would hang out at Gravelly and ask the anglers if we'd seen the cat. It was not her cat. Trent Jones recounts the events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob's life revolves around fly fishing. Does yours? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Springing Forward and Clients Catching Some Trout. What A Grat Day. Fishing a tailwater after 4 inches of rain fell in the DC metro region last week. Beautiful weather, lots of bugs, birds, amphibians, and TROUT. All in suburbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The seasonality of fly fishing. Being able to predict where to fish, what to fish, and what species are biting, and why based on the calendar. Nature has a cycle and if you follow it you can catch more fish. From periodical cicadas to the Mother's Day caddis hatch. With a warming planet all of these rhythms are happening early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short story summarizing two days spent with friends in Idaho in 2007. Rob originally wanted to be an outdoor writer. Too much to worry about when writing versus speaking led Rob to record his stories instead. This is a story Rob wrote for submission to a few fly fishing magazines. Chasing bull trout in a small stream in Idaho. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Layering for Cold Weather Fly Fishing. If you are cold while fishing you are to prepared. Rob worked in several fly shops and an outdoor store before recording this. He was the guy to talk to about layering for cold weather activities. Listen as he describes how to layer and what materials to choose as the best for insulation and warmth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fly Fishing For Salmon and Steelhead. Both are not native to the Great Lakes. Once river herring reached Lake Erie via the Erie Canal they proliferated in the lakes. Salmon were stocked in the 1960s to devour the herring. The steelhead had been there for several decades prior. Now there are two more types of migratory fishes to catch in the rivers and lakes. Listen as Rob describes why the fish are there at certain times of year, how to target them, the gear needed, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob sits down in the back office of the Orvis store in Arlington, Va with Dan Davala. Dan is the president and founder of the Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders and the fishing manager at the store. Dan talks about the store and the club and the need for a local fly fishing community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cellular Respiration. Remember that Rob used to be a science teacher and he's a nerdy dude. One of his favorite subjects to teach was cellular respiration. Sure he failed the test on that in his Cellular Biology class in college but he understands it now. Consider this a basic crash course in cell respiration. You may not be an angler and still learn from this as Rob is going to take a boring subject and apply it to everyday life. Some things to think about when you dress in layers, clean your glasses, eat breakfast, and shop for rain gear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fly Tying Tutorial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 Knot Tying Tutorial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 Knot Tying Tutorial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Types of Water and Reading Water. You want to find fish? You have to know where they are and why. You may be surprised at where a fish may hang out. You need to know the terminology of reading water if you plan to fish with a guide. Rob breaks down moving and still waters and the characteristics of each that attract fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Electroshocking Potomac Tributaries For Snakeheads with VDGIF. Rob joins Virginia biologists to electro shock Potomac River tributaries. Rob had no ideas the Potomac was full of giant goldfish and huge red crayfish until this day. Both were constantly being shocked and floating to the surface. Watch videos on Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life History of Morone saxatilis, The Striped Bass. Everything you need to know about striped bass except how to catch them. This is the paper Rob wrote his Junior year in college. It was the last year that Combs hall was open at Mary Washington College. It was during the writing of this paper that Rob discovered the plethora of fish that migrate up the Rappahannock River near his school. Image of Producer Jason from the Washington Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fish Orders and Families Rob is a huge nerd. He thinks about fish all the time. He does not think about eating them. Fish and fishing was a huge part of Rob's childhood from indoor trips to the Baltimore Aquarium and Eugenie Clark's labs to his youth snorkeling the coral reef in his grand parents back yard. Rob read every fish and fishing book at this local library as soon as he could drive there. Rob sat in the front and center seats in his ichthyology and vertebrate zoology classes. He also taught high school biology for several years. And now he teaches people about the fish they catch and then throw back. Consider yourself a student in Rob's class on basic fish taxonomy for fly anglers. Learn about the names of fish and their place in fly fishing vernacular. You'll catch more fish now that you will learn about fish, what they look like, how they move, where they live, and mostly what they eat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob is a huge nerd. He thinks about fish all the time. He does not think about eating them. Fish and fishing was a huge part of Rob's childhood from indoor trips to the Baltimore Aquarium and Eugenie Clark's labs to his youth snorkeling the coral reef in his grand parents back yard. Rob read every fish and fishing book at this local library as soon as he could drive there. Rob sat in the front and center seats in his ichthyology and vertebrate zoology classes. He also taught high school biology for several years. And now he teaches people about the fish they catch and then throw back. Consider yourself a student in Rob's class on basic fish anatomy and physiology for fly anglers. Learn about the taxonomy of fish and their geologic history. The most common fish are identified with their key identifiable characteristics. You'll catch more fish now that you will learn about fish, what they look like, how they move, where they live, and mostly what they eat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob simplifies the tackle needed for fly fishing. All rods and reels and lines catch fish. The difference is the cost of the gear, its durability, and its functionality. Rob suggests all fly anglers have a three weight (WT), five WT, and 8WT. Why do all anglers start off with a 5wt? Which rods give better reach? How have European nymphing rods evolved since this was recorded. Switch rods and two handed rods in general were not fished or known by most anglers in 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fly Tying Tutorial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first public meeting of the Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders. Held in the Arlington County Public Library down the street from Orvis. The club went on to be featured in the Fly Fishing Film Festival and is credited with groups meeting in bars to tie flies. This was recorded in the dark ages of podcasting using an external aux microphone attached to an iPod touch. Here is the audio from the Tidal Potomac Fly Rodder's Spring 2010 meeting. Please visit the group's website for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fly tying. Did you get into this to save money or be creative? How are you going to organize all this? Are you going to start cutting apart road kill and saving your belly button lint? Rob has been tying flies since spring break his junior year of high school. It is more than an art. He ties for fun and commercially. Rob teaches a monthly fly tying class in Arlington, Va monthly. He is renowned for his use of everyday materials that are repurposed into fly tying material. This episode is about all the tools and terminology used in the process of taking a bare piece of metal and attaching natural and synthetic materials to it with the intent of having a fish eat it. Watch Rob tie flies, discuss flies and materials, and just be creative behind the vise. Be sure to read The Feather Thief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Water is a unique molecule. It is the world's most valuable resource and fish can't live with out it. Rob' discusses the unique properties of water, how they relate to life, and fly fishing. Flies that float, flies that sink, hydrophobia, hyperphobia, biochemistry, and so much more. This is why people hire Rob as a guide. You will learn more than just how to catch a fish. If you aren't careful when fishing water will kill you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A brief talk about flies: what they represent, how they are made, what to look for when purchasing, and some rants. American's have extremely elaborate flies compared to the rest of the world. Why? The fish are the same whether you are in Argentina, Slovenia, Colorado, or South Africa. There is a history to flies, their creators, the materials used, and how they are made. Be sure to check out Rob's unique flies. There are flies that are mentioned here that have changed over the years and several new patterns have been released since publication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob is really into bugs. He is credited with compiling the largest and most extensive insect collection at the University Of Mary Washington. Listen as Rob describes the insects considered important to fly fly fishing. The flies that fish eat, the patterns to represent them, how to differentiate insects and more. Be sure to use the 'Google Lens' feature on your smart phone to identify insects. You can always send Rob a pic of something to identify. Everyone else does. A brief talk on insects and how your knowledge of insects will benefit your fly fishing experience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the introductory podcast in a series of educational podcasts about fly fishing. The sound is not that great and I'm a bit nervous. Rob wanted to create a podcast series based on his guiding syllabus. Each episode covers a specific topic in the myriad of topics related to catching fish with a fly. Episodes will be Rob leading a classroom style discussion and others will be interviews. Rob will record his travels and adventures across the world and near home. The idea for the podcast started in 2009. This is the longest running fly fishing podcast on iTunes. Support This Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices