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Fly Fishing Basic for Beginners

Updated: Apr 30, 2019

Are you about to start to fly fishing basic? Fly fishing considered to as an adventures hobby. In order to start fly fishing, you are going to need the necessary fly-fishing gear.

Fly Fishing Basic
Fly Fishing Basic for Beginners

Besides you have to know the proper strategy and guidelines of fly rods, reel, fishing line, about trout, lures and so on. So, as you are a beginner, you may search for a proper fly-fishing basic. That why we are here to help you to learn some of that.


Is Fly Fishing So Difficult?


If you have such type of question in your mind. Delete it. You may find it much tough at the beginning. But, after practicing and practicing, surely you are going to master it. Just to let you know, fly fishing is a somewhat little bit different than regular fishing style. So, you need to set up yourself in a proper way.


Basic Fly-Fishing Equipment


As mentioned before, first of all, you need a fly-fishing gear. Before you start the fishing journey, collect these items: A fly rod, a fly reel, fly fishing line, artificial flies. The best thing is, today a lot of fly-fishing manufacturers sell those items as a pack or combo for different trout and different types of water. You can have this easily. Or if you want to buy these as individual parts, you can also go for it.


Fly Rod: Fly rod is the most essential components that you need for fishing. This equipment is not so much pricey. Hope you can have a decent fly-fishing rod at 50 or 60 dollars. But remember, the quality depends on the price. The most basic parts of a fly rod are:
  • Handle

  • Handle Extension

  • Reel Seat

  • Hook Keeper

  • Ferrule

  • Guides.

Fly Reel: It is the most important second element of fly fishing. There are so many different fly reels are available in the market today. Most of them are built with plastic, metal or even wood. The metal fly reel comes with good price, the wooden or plastic fly reels are less pricey compared to metal. There are some components included in a fly reel.

They are:

  • Handle

  • Seat

  • Frame

  • Spool

  • Spool Release

  • Drag Set

Fly Fishing Line: Fly fishing line also includes these following components:
  • Fly lines holding the flies and used to place the fly over the water during casting.

  • Fly backing allows the other fly-fishing line to connect to each other.

  • Tippet is to hide the fishing lines from the water

  • Leaders are used to joining the artificial flies and as well as the tippet.

Fly Fishing Flies: There are also a lot of variety of flies available in the market which you may use for casting. But want to tell you this is: all flies cannot be used for different trout. You need to buy separate flies for a separate type of trout fishing.

Conclusion


Besides all of these, you have to learn how to knot. There are also several types of knot you can learn. Like Arbor Knot, Albright Knot, Nail Knot, Clinch Knot, Surgeon’s Knot, etc. and also learn how to cast properly to catch more fish.

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