Fly Fishing Tips and Hints

Casting without landing the fly on the water is known as 'false casting', and may be used to pay out line, to dry a soaked fly, or to reposition a cast. Other casts are the roll cast, the single- or double-haul, the tuck cast, and the side- or curve-cast. Casting lessons can be tailored by professionals to improve your level of proficiency . Allways Cast into shallow waters when fly fishing for pickerel. The best technique for the pickerel is put your cast in shallow waters at first.

Fly Fishing

Flies from the north Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America tend to resemble freshwater streamers or bucktails, while their southern counterparts have a unique style, involving chenille bodies, bucktail or saddle hackle wings, and contrasting hackle collars.

The emphasis is on brightness, and new materials; salt water fly fishing is exceptionally innovative, and as I said earlier, it isn't too hard to discern a trend for developments to percolate from salt to fresh water fly patterns.

Flies will not fall out during transport, or flop over to one side. Available in different exterior colors to make sorting flies, by type or destination used, easier than ever.

Flies that have been very successful are sand eel patterns to large flatwings up to 7" long. Clouser minnows are very effective in a wide range of colors.