What is Fly Fishing?

Fly-Fishing is a Fun Sport

Fly-fishing was developed in the 19th century, dry fly technique is very effective especially for slower and clearer rivers. Fly-fishing is an ancient angling method especially great in catching trout and salmon. This distinct method of angling uses artificial flies to lure or excite fish. Fly-fishing helps anglers catch the fish easier than the traditional way.There is two types of fly fishing,one with dry flies and the other with wet flies - When using dry flies they have to be painted with a varnish or floatant so the fly will not sink and floats on the surface. Dry Fliesare mostly effective in upstream and moving water.

Dry flies help angler's spot where fish resides like pools and pocket in streams. Thus, it is easier to detect them and catch the fish. The use of wet flies is for beneath the surface of the water. better known as nymphs. It works as effective as dry flies except that in cases where there lots of weeds and almost on the surface, wet flies blends with the weeds and thus may not be as effective as the dry flies.

How do you fly-fish? Fly fishing uses longer and lighter rods; sizes vary from 2m (6 ft) for fresh water and up to 4m (14 ft) for salt water fly-fishing. Weight for fresh water rods are between two to five ounces. The rod movement varies from 10 o'clock position to 2 o'clock position without touching the ground. Anglers do this to load the rod tip with energy and to travel the fly line creating distance and control; they call this motion false casting. False casting needs to be done to excite the fish or make it aggressive enough so that when the fly touches the surface, it will be sure that the area where the fly touches is where most of the fish are located and thus will be easier to spot and catch them. The main thing is to have fun-as you do this so you will get better and to excuse a pun GET HOOKED on the sport of Fly Fishing.

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Written by John Treby - My Fly Fishing Store

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