Small Stream Fly Fishing Tips

Fishing for Trout in a small creek or stream differs a lot from days out on a lake or larger river. Most differences come in the form of size and textures of your flies, but there are some details that are overlooked. Here are the top four overlooked strategies when it comes to fly fishing the smaller tributaries.
Don't pre-judge size
Often times people tend to think the smaller the river the smaller the bait. This is not necessarily true. Last year, on a fishing trip with one of my friends who is an outstanding dry fly fisher, I was reminded of this valuable lesson. On this trip we were to be fishing a tributary to one of my favorite rivers. I thought that this would be an average fishing day, with no particularly large trout, but that soon changed when he brought out a twenty one inch cut-throat in the first few casts, and numerous good sized fish after that. After hours of me fishing with my ordinary tackle and coming up empty handed, I asked him what he was using. He showed me a size ten salmon fly. I thought this was ridiculous for that size of creek, but I tried the behemoth fly and on the fourth cast landed a twenty inch brown trout. This will remain a lesson I will never again forget.

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Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques

Fly fishing tips is a very common search term on the internet, because everyone wants to improve their fly fishing, and simple fly fishing tips can be learned and remembered in small bite sized chunks.
Here are a few fly fishing tips.
Problem: The Fly. Are the fish interested in your fly. And if not, why not?
Well, here are a few things to consider.
1. Are there any rising fish. If not, a dry fly is not going to get you anywhere. Locate the fish and use a wet fly to get down to them.
2. Does your fly smell unnatural to the fish? Rinse your hands in the water and dry them before handling the fly. Fish have very good sense of smell and if your fly smells of smoke for instance, the fish won't take it.

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Why I Love Fly Fishing, and a Couple of Tips

Fly fishing is often received something pressing past in the sense that many people consider it to be elitist. There is some truth in that, especially when it comes to fly fishing for salmon, but in general terms fishing the fly and especially fishing for trout is genuinely open to all. In fact people are enjoying fly fishing for catching what have in the past been considered the preserve of the course fishermen, for example Pike. There is also growing market in saltwater fly fishing.
Before I took up fly fishing I had been a regular course fishing guy for as long as I can remember. I still enjoy sitting by the riverbank either watching afloat or waiting for my bite indicator tell me that I'm into a fish.

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6 Fly Fishing Tips for Beginners

1. Always buy (or make) two flies of each type, size and color: it's so irritating to have found the winning fly on a particular day only to lose it in an overhanging tree.
2. If you can't match the natural flies and nymphs perfectly, don't worry too much - it's how the fly behaves in the water that matters just as much as how it looks.
3. Always try to think how the natural fly does behave, and attempt to make your artificial work in the same sort of way. So don't twitch methodically, but vary how you retrieve your fly. Put a bit of imagination into it, and concentrate all the time. Results will rocket.
4. It's probably true to say that 90 percent of takes are never even guessed at by the angler. A trout can swim up, suck in a fly, and then reject it without the angler having a clue what's happened. For this reason, keep everything tight to the fly and watch both your line and your leader with hawk-like concentration. Strike if you think anything is a miss, and you can often be rewarded.

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Top Ten Fly Fishing Tips

Fishing Etiquette - Taking out your Line
Common courtesy dictates that you take your line out of the water for any angler who has a fish on the line. This is so that they have plenty of space in order to land their fish. This rule is very important if you're fishing down-river from the other angler. Make sure that you never step into the space of an angler who is releasing or landing a fish on the bank.

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