1. Fly Fishing Tools
When you go fly fishing, you first need all the equipment and accessories involved in the sport. In order of purchase priority, you need fly, line, leader, rod, backing and the reel. You should purchase them in this order because the type of fly affects the type of line needed, line determines the kind of leader and so on. If you are going to wade into the water to fly fish, you want a good pair of wading pants.
2. Casting for Success
To cast correctly, most of the motion is in the wrist. The two main parts of the cast are the back cast and forward cast. First, bring the fly rod up slowly and make sure the line is tense. Then, snap the rod back and stop almost directly above your head to allow the line to catch up. Next, bring the fly rod back slowly and prepare to forward cast. Flick the wrist forward to bring the cast forward and stop at about a foot in front of your body, or at 11 o'clock. Finally, after the stop, slowly move the rod forward to a slightly angled position in front of you.
3. Fish Stories
Most people have it in their heads that you have to fly fish on a river, but you can fly fish just as easily on a lake, and it is usually less crowded. You can really fly fish for any fresh water fish that has a fin. Another misconception with fly fishing is that you need to be in the water. Actually, when you are in the water, you are spooking the fish away, so stay out of the water if possible.
4. All Tied Up
Tying the entire fly line correctly is important because, as you cast, if everything connects poorly, you will spend your time retying rather than fly fishing. There are five main types of knots to use in fly fishing. There is the arbor knot or tie, which attaches the reel's arbor to the backing. The nail-line tie connects the fly line to the backing and the fly line to the leader. The surgeon tie attaches the leader to the tippet. The clinch knot connects the tippet to the fly itself. Finally, the perfection knot creates a loop tie at the end of a leader.
5. Fly Types
There are two main types of flies, and they are the ones that lay above the water and the ones the sink below the water's surface. The two most common kinds of above-water flies are the poppers and dry flies. Poppers most often imitate frogs or hurt baitfish, and are usually made of a wood product like cork. Dry flies resemble an adult insect, float on the surface using a hackle or feather and are practically weightless. The main below-water flies are streamers, wet flies and nymphs. Streamers look like a small fish and are longer than nymphs. Nymphs and wet flies are the same thing except the former does not have wings, while the latter does. These types of flies are extremely light and will require a weight to sink them below the surface.
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