What Trout Hear and Smell, with Jason Randall

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

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

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

A couple months ago I did a podcast with Jason Randall [36:39] on trout vision, and it was so popular that I asked him to come back on the podcast to do one on a trout's sense of smell and hearing. Can trout hear your metal studs on the bottom when you wade, or the tip of your wading staff? Can they hear you talking? Can they smell your flies, and does it make sense to add scents to your fly? Can they smell hatches coming? I explore these and other topics with one of our foremost experts on what trout perceive in their environment.

In the Fly Box this week, we have a great assortment of questions and tips from listeners, including:

What could I tie with size 16 and 18 Keel Hooks?
When working the same pool, should the nymph or streamer angler cover the pool first?
Where should you park when you see a stretch of unposted land?
A listener relates a fun story of his first carp on the fly
What would make me choose the more expensive textured Pro fly line over the Smooth version?
What is your rod, leader, and fly setup when fishing a small stream?
Is there a difference between a dubbing loop and the split thread technique?
Do Recons and Clearwaters go through the same process of improvements that Helios rods do?
I saw a lot of bugs but no trout rising. Do you think they were overwhelmed by too much food?
If trout in the East don't eat adult stoneflies much, why does the Chubby Chernobyl work so well?
I find sunglasses in the evening a hindrance. What should I do to protect my eyes after the sun goes down?

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
0:17.1	Jason Randall now Jason and I did a podcast a couple of months ago about Trout Vision and that one was so popular that we
0:26.9	decided to do one on Trout's sense of smell and their sense of hearing and their sense of
0:33.7	sense of hearing and their sense of vibrations, I guess you would call it.
0:36.4	Jason is someone who has studied a lot of the scientific literature.
0:41.5	He's a lifelong fly angler and educator and really knows
0:46.1	his stuff as far as the senses of trout are concerned. So he's always
0:51.6	authoritative and always fun.
0:54.0	And I get a lot of questions about, you know, how much can
0:57.0	trout here, can trout smell, should I put scent on my flies and so on.
1:01.0	So we're going to talk about all those topics and I think you'll enjoy it. I know I enjoyed talking to him.
1:09.4	Now before we do the fly box, if you want to go fishing with me, how about going to
1:14.8	Chile? Patagonian Chile. I have a trip at Magic Waters Lodge February 8th
1:21.8	through 15th, 2025.
1:25.0	Still time to sign up for this one.
1:26.8	There's still a few spaces left, I believe.
1:31.6	And as I speak anyways, there's a few spaces left and this is perhaps my
1:37.6	favorite place in the world to go fishing the diversity of fishing there is everything from Spring Creek's down in the Pompus to little tiny mountain streams up in the rainforest to bigger rivers that you can float in a raft to
1:56.6	lakes where you can have giant brown trout chasing dragonflies it's just it's just an amazing trip and I love the people there. I love the guides and love the country and my wife's going along with me. My wife Robin's going with me and she doesn't even fish and she just loves it. She loves going
2:17.0	bird watching and hiking and looking at glaciers and things like that. So if you are planning on a trip and you have a non-fishing spouse, this is one of the best
2:27.5	trips I think you can make where both of you will be happy. So anyway I hope you can join me there. If you're
2:34.2	interested it's listed on the Orvis website under Chile or you can call
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