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The idea behind this piece is to help the beginner fly fishing. The terminology and the basic practice employed in fly fishing may be unknown to the beginner at fly fishing, so we will commence 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 instruments needed for fly fishing are usually called tackle, although if you want to be more accurate about the type of tools you need, you can add the words “fly fishing”. Therefore, you get the phrase: “fly fishing tackle”. Fly fishing tackle, or gear, basically consists of artificial flies, a fly rod, a fly reel and fly line. The set-up is: the fly is affixed to the line, which is wound around the reel, which is attached to the rod or pole, which is used to cast the fly or other bait.

To be able to cast the fly as far as wanted from the angler, the line has to be a bit heavier than the other types of fishing line, since a weight is used in other forms of fishing to achieve the same result. Also, the artificial flies are available in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours to reflect real, live flies, depending on the type of fish the angler intends to catch.

Generally speaking, an artificial fishing fly is created, often by hand by enthusiasts, from hair, plastic, feathers, fabric, fur and many other types of material in order to ensure the fly resembles, as closely as possible, the insect or fly most commonly taken by the particular species of fish in that particular month or at that time of the day. This means that each fishing spot requires that you choose a certain kind of artificial fly that will look like the insects frequenting the area where your desired species of fish live. Therefore, a type of fly employed in one area of the country may not be as successful as you’d think 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 lures look like real insects, while the attractive flies only rely on colour or the twinkling of sunlight in order to lure fish without necessarily resembling|looking like] the fish’s usual diet.

Further sub-classifications are then used to sub-divide artificial fly fishing lures into: a] dry (looking like grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. which float on or near the surface of the water); b] sub-surface (imitating larvae, pupae) and c] wet (resembling leeches and minnows and other small fish or fry).

The main distinguishing feature between fly fishing and non-fly fishing is that fly fishing relies to a great extent on the weight of the line to get the artificial lure to that area of the stream where the fish are swimming, probably at a distance from the angler. The line is often green and hollow, so that it will float.

However, non-fly fishing relies rather on the attached weight, usually made of lead previously, to draw the line off the reel and carry it forward to the correct pool, where the weight or even split shot will also take the bait or lure down in the water to the feeding fish.

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