Fly Fishing 101
Posted by Michael Adams in Uncategorized, tags: angling, beach, boats, children, exercise, fishing, fly fishing, food, hobbies, men, other, outdoor, sport, Uncategorized, womenThe purpose of this article is to help the beginner fly fishing. The terms used and the basic methods used in fly fishing may be unfamiliar to the beginner at fly fishing, so we will start from the very beginning. Therefore, if you are a beginner fly fishing person, please read on in order to become acquainted with fly fishing.
The things required for fly fishing are usually called tackle, but if you want to be more specific about the sort of tools you need, you can add the words “fly fishing”. Therefore, you get the phrase: “fly fishing tackle”. Fly fishing tackle, or gear, basically consists of artificial flies, a fly rod, a fly reel and fly line. The set-up is: the fly is affixed to the line, which is wound around the reel, which is attached to the rod or pole, which is used to cast the fly or other bait.
To be able to cast the fly as far as wanted from the angler, the line has to be a bit heavier than the other types of fishing line, as a weight is used in other forms of fishing to get the same result. Also, the artificial flies are available in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours to reflect real, live flies, depending on the species of fish the angler wants to catch.
In general, an artificial fly is made of hair, plastic, feathers, fabric, fur and many other kinds of material in order to ensure the flies resemble, as closely as possible, the insect or fly most commonly taken by the particular sort of fish in that particular month or at that time of the day. This means that each fishing location requires that you choose a certain kind of artificial fly that will look like the insects living in the area where your desired species of fish frequent. Therefore, a kind of fly used in one part of the region may not be as successful as you’d expect in another.
However, there are classifications of flies too, although they fall into two basic general categories, which are known as ‘attractive’ and ‘imitative’. The imitative artificial flies resemble real flies, while the attractive flies only rely on colour or the reflection of sunlight in order to attract fish without necessarily looking like the fish’s normal prey.
These classifications then further sub-divide artificial fly fishing lures into: a] dry (imitating grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. which float on or near the surface of the water); b] sub-surface (imitating larvae, pupae) and c] wet (imitating leeches and minnows or other tiddlers).
The biggest distinguishing feature between fly fishing and non-fly fishing is that fly fishing relies to a great extent on the weight of the line to get the artificial lure to that part of the stream where the fish are located, probably at some distance from the bank. The line is often green and hollow like electrical wire coating, so that it will float.
However, non-fly fishing relies rather on the added weight, usually made of lead previously, to draw the line off the reel and carry it on to the correct pool, where the weight or even split shot will also take the bait or lure down in the water to the feeding fish.
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