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How to fly fish trout

Fly fishing for  trout has often been described as an art. Most artists know a little patience and practice is necessary to produce the best results. Trout anglers who want to learn to fly fish should always bear this in mind. A good friend of mine who is now in his nineties and who has a tremendous knowledge of fly fishing (and a very quick wit) has been fly fishing for trout since he was a boy. However, he has often said to me that  “I am still trying to find the best method and fly ”.

Let us begin with the object of our attention the trout itself. The aim of the fly angler is to tempt our trout to take an artificial fly. All the skills necessary to catch trout such as selecting what we hope are the right trout flies ,sighting, casting and hooking can all be learned by practice. However, these skills will always come to nothing if the trout itself is not convinced that the fly you have offered it is food.

 The feeding patterns of trout vary between the species, habitat and even what  the time of day it is. Through their survival instinct certain food recognition triggers become intrenched and form the trout’s feeding habits. As our trout grows bigger it also adapts supplementary feeding behavior has it is now also able to eat larger prey. Weather conditions, water flow rate and temperature also effect how, when and what our trout will eat.

It is clear from all this that local knowledge of how to go fly fishing for trout is invaluable .

 When i was younger and no better for the few pints of cider i had drunk in the bar of the pub i was staying at in Builth Wells in Mid Wales, i decided to go worm fishing or should i rather say poaching, on a stretch of the River Wye which i had liked the look of earlier in the day. It was getting dark and i had been fishing for about three hours without even getting a bite from a fish, when an old scruffy looking man came up to me from the behind on the bank i was sitting on. ”Caught anything ?” he asked, “nothing i replied”. He then asked me what bait i was using and i told him worm. He then went down to the river pool and pulled some hollow twigs out of the water which he broke open and handed me some kind of larvae from inside, “use that” he said, and i did as i was told, happy that he was not the bailiff. Shortly after i had cast out this new bait he was at the river pool with his grub twigs stirring the water around. The next thing i knew my rod came flying of its rest and i soon landed a  lovely three pound brownie. How then as fly anglers do we find out such local knowledge?.

As with most types of trout fishing there is no universal answer. However you can greatly improve your chances by concentrating  on  those food recognition triggers that remain constant wherever you decide to go fly fishing for trout. This will save you time and money pondering, tying and buying from the thousands of different trout flies that are available. I only have to carry a few flies that  each fulfill a specific purpose dependent on the conditions of the stretch of river that i am fishing. Remember that its the food recognition triggers that causes our trout to take the fly more than the clever imitation of a fly. Flies do not have to represent anything in particular to trigger food recognition in trout.This is my trout fishing secret. Also see our low priced Fly Rods .

A great point fly for Sea trout & Grilse. Fish a size 8, 10 or 12. Remember to balance your gut with the size of fly, ie don;t fish a small fly on 15lb gut. But remember the golden rule, if you feel the gut you are fishing is to thin for the conditions and you might break in a fish then don't fish it. Far better to miss the fish than leave it with a hook in its throat.

The next step in learning to fly fish is getting some tuition. If you do not know anyone who can teach you look on the web. Here is a good web site for England and Wales  www.fishingnet.com/fishing_guides.htm .It is far easier to learn from the experts, however if like myself you always like to do it the hard way such as by teaching yourself to fly fish, i would recommend  you take a look at some of the fly fishing titles available as further reading.