How To Fly Fish For Trout

How to fly fish for trout? As you can see, lots of flies to choose from, let's say from the situation that we are in, the conditions, the weather, what kind of fish we are chasing wild trout, stocked trout, quite a few things to consider, and also the time of year, what flies we are hoping to encounter? What we are trying to imitate basically. Well, there's lots of choice here and obviously in time, on certain water, you get to know what to choose and what time and how to fish it, of course. Once you've chosen your fly based on all the things we talked about, then, obviously, getting it out there is important.

You know, with fly fishing for trout, I think trout fishing is probably the most accessible fly fishing. Aside from coarse species which is great fan of the fly as well, trout and other fish, most people turn to when they are beginners. Waters like this, the 9-acre lake, is stocked regularly with you know, they keep a record of the fish that come out, so, they know how many fish has come out and it's restocked with good quality fish.

And, that keeps a lot of people happy, keeps a lot of people coming back and hopefully putting fish on the table each week. Once we've chosen our fly and tied it to end of our nylon which is at the end of this fly line, we've got a nylon leader of approximately nine feet and to the end, we'll tie our fly. Once our fly is chosen, then we can start fishing.

Now, when we get to the water, I always like to have a little look in the water and approach quite stealthily. Getting there rather than rocking up and making a whole noise, getting there quite low, keeping low on the horizon so fish don't see you. And just taking a little peek and those are the situations where we can hook up very quickly if fish are there.

Fish are often feeding close to the sides. Especially first thing in the day when that's the part of the water that warms up sooner, that where we get fly line hovering. So, you can make sure little cast and hopefully catch fish.

Once we've got a little bit of fly line on the water, we want to get a little bit of mot to get a bit of distance cast then obviously wiggle the rod tip and then let a little bit of line go through the rings. Then we've got a bit more, to get a bit more distance. Also, roll cast it will help us extend it.

Okay, having up in the water, there's not a great deal happening in fly life but there are a few midges on the margins hovering over the water, so hopefully we're going to see some fish that are feeding on midge pupa, lots of flies to imitate those, so we can tie one on and give that a try. As we've got very little movement on the water today, I'll choose a pattern which has a little bit body movement and hopefully that will do the trick. So, we're going to try and get this fly out, somewhere where we can get a little bit of drift on the line.

If you look at the water, water's got a slight movement going that way so if I can get across that then we can get a little bit of a drift. What I don't want to be doing is coursing and retrieving and making too much movement with the fly. We'll just let the wind do that.

Now with midge pupa fishing, whichever patterns we are choosing, we try to fish that fly quite slow. And the general rule of thumb for me is if you are not sure how to do it, small flies and fishing slowly can be quite productive when times are tough. So, it's a brief look at fly fishing for trout.

Obviously, fly choice and how to fish it are important. Safe in choosing the correct equipment, we've got a make sure that what we are doing with that fly is going to look realistic to the fish and hopefully fool them. .