Fly Fishing Guide

Below are a few tips to help you improve your fly fishing technique and hopefully your success, some of these may seem like obvious things, but often it’s the basic principles that people get wrong!

The Fly

- choosing the right fly is important but presenting it to the fish in an appealing and natural fashion is far more significant. You have to take into consideration where the fish will be, a fish’s activities and behaviour vary depending on the time of year, time of day and weather, and you must try and learn or have a knowledge of the fish’s behaviour in order to have greater success caching them.

The Cast

– All beginners think that the faster and further they cast the better the chance of them catching a big fish. But the truth is with a well honed technique, good timing and tactics will all help you improve the quality of your fly fishing, and over time you will be able to develop your cast to be like all the professionals.

The Retrieve

–Being able to mimic the actions of a fly from 5 meters away only being able to use a composite rod, and heavy fishing line are far from easy. Learning the specific characteristics of each artificial fly is essential and being able to adapt to the conditions in order to catch the most stubborn of fish is a true art form that if learned, will lead to far more fish being caught.

The Fish

– Try and think like the fish you’re trying to catch. By understanding the behaviour, characteristics, habit and attitude of the fish you’re trying to catch, you can adapt your fishing technique and location to try and catch more fish. Many fish that you catch when fly fishing can be very timid, and so learning their behaviour will help you to understand where they are, and how best to catch them.

Nature

– Learn to understand how fish use and live within there environment, find out when they’re breeding, and also learn to adapt yourself to different water conditions and weather factors that could affect the fish.

When you next go fly fishing take these tips into account and see if your fishing improves, maybe you will find these tips help to make your experience more enjoyable, or maybe you find that you’re thinking about all these factors a lot more, and because of that you’re catching more.