The idea behind this article is to assist the beginner fly fishing. The terminology and the basic methods used in fly fishing may be unknown 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 generally known as tackle, but if you want to be more accurate about the type of instruments you need, you can tack on the words “fly fishing”. So, you get the phrase: “fly fishing tackle”. Fly fishing tackle, or gear, fundamentally consists of artificial flies, a fly rod, a fly reel and fly line. The way it works is: the fly is attached to the line, which is wound around the reel, which is affixed to the rod or pole, which is used to cast the fly or other bait.
To make it easier to cast the fly as far as required from the angler, the line needs to be a bit weightier than the other types of fishing line, since a weight is used in other forms of fishing to achieve the same effect. Furthermore, 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 hopes 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 eaten by the particular sort of fish in that particular month or at that time of the day. This means that each fishing spot requires that you select a definite kind of artificial fly that will look like the insects living in the area where your desired type of fish swim. Therefore, a kind of fly employed in one area of the region may not be as successful as you’d expect elsewhere.
There are classifications of flies too, although they fall into two basic super categories, which are referred to as ‘attractive’ and ‘imitative’. The imitative artificial flies look like real insects, while the attractive lures just rely on colour or the reflection of sunlight in order to lure fish without necessarily looking like the fish’s normal food.
Further sub-classifications are then used to 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 (resembling larvae, pupae) and c] wet (imitating leeches and minnows and other small fish or fry).
The biggest distinguishing feature between fly fishing and non-fly fishing is that fly fishing depends to a great extent on the weight of the line to get the artificial lure to that part of the water where the fish are schooling, probably at some distance from the angler. The line is often camouflaged and hollow like electrical wire coating, so that it will float.
However, non-fly fishing relies rather on the attached weight, usually made of lead previously, to pull the line off the reel and carry it forward to the right pool, where the weight will also take the bait or lure down to the feeding fish.
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