How to Fish Delayed Harvest Trout Streams, with Award-Winning Guide Dustin Coffey

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

What is a delayed harvest stream and how do the regulations work? Do you use different flies and methods for hatchery fish? How far do hatchery fish move and in which direction? You'll learn the answers to these questions and many more with Dustin Coffey [46:39], the winner of the 2024 Orvis Endorsed Guide of the Year award.

In the podcast this week, as usual we have some interesting and thought-provoking questions, including:

Does fly line color matter?
Why don't my subtle baitfish patterns work in Patagonia?
Can I use my big brown trout streamers for Atlantic salmon since they are related to brown trout?
How deep do you insert studs when adding them to felt-soled waders?
How do I get my streamers deeper when fishing for sea-run brook trout in rivers where weighted flies and sinking lines are not allowed?
Is it acceptable if I troll from a kayak for striped bass, and what rod should I use?
A listener writes in to tell us that the orange goo found in some rivers is a natural phenomenon
What do I use for a practice streamer when casting on my lawn?
Does the noise from my wading shoes and wading staff scare trout?
Do trout live in streams with mucky bottoms?
Any other casting methods besides the roll cast I can use on smaller streams?
I fished over some rising trout with my nymph rig and didn't catch them. Should I have switched to a dry fly?
How should I rig for pike?
What are the pros and cons of using an 8 ½ foot rod vs. a 9-foot rod in Colorado tailwaters?
When do you put down your rod and take photos?
How can I get the cement off my hooks when I want to re-use the hooks from beat-up Clouser Minnows?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and my guest this week is
0:18.0	Dustin Coffey of North Carolina Dustin is the Orvis 2024 Endorse Guide of the Year,
0:28.8	which is a great honor and well deserved.
0:32.4	And I think you'll get an idea of how well
0:34.8	deserved it is just by by listening to him talk and his his passion and his
0:39.6	excitement for fly fishing. Dustin's been fly fishing for a long time, has been guiding in the
0:46.0	mountains of North Carolina for many years and our subject today is delayed harvest streams and the difference between hatchery and wild trout.
1:01.0	Do hatchery trout move very far? Where do they move upstream or downstream?
1:06.0	Are there any special flies you need for hatchery trout? And how long do they take to acclimate to a stream? So these are questions I get quite a bit on the podcast and I honestly don't fish delayed harvest streams very much so I'm going to rely on Dustin's knowledge of that kind of
1:26.9	fishery where you have where you can often find both wild and hatchery trout and
1:32.0	and before we do the flybox wild and hatchery trout.
1:33.0	And before we do the flybox, just a couple announcements.
1:36.0	One is I've got some hosted trips coming up if you want to take a fishing trip with me.
1:41.0	I've got one at Three Rivers Ranch in Idaho, September 28th to October 5th,
1:47.0	uh, 2024. I've got one at Magic Waters in Chile, February 8th through 14th.
1:55.0	And I have a hosted trip for a Chile combination week at Stancia Del Zorro and
2:02.0	Saint-Gurios February 15th. Stancier del Zorro and 5th
2:03.0	February 15th through 22nd.
2:07.5	So, love to see there.
2:09.5	I often get people that come on these trips that are podcast listeners and they heard about the trips on the podcast and it's always great to meet you in person so hope to do that.
2:20.0	And speaking of hosted trips and a tip on a product, just got back from a hosted trip to the great and wonderful Swains Key Lodge in Mangrove Key on Andros Island in the Bahamas.
2:34.7	And I, for the first time in Saltwater wore a pair of the new Pro-approach hiker saltwater waiting shoes and I was absolutely delighted with these
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