As you explore fly fishing, you'll talk with more and more fly fishermen, seek their advice and learn from their experience, as well as your own. As your knowledge base grows, your fishing will improve. Soon, you will be the one dispensing fly fishing wisdom! Here are a few special situations where knowing some inside information can help give you an edge.
- Using a dry fly brings the fish to the surface where you can see it take the bait — a surefire way to get your adrenaline pumping. And it makes the story about how you landed the big one that much better.
- Basic Surface Techniques in Fly Fishing
- Dry-fly fishing is by far the most popular method of fly fishing because it is nearly 100 percent visual. The fly fisherman watches the fly on the water's surface and sees the fish eat it. It's an exhilarating - and entertaining - way to catch trout, bass, panfish and saltwater species.
- The surface-floating dry fly represents an insect (or in the case of popping bugs for bass, a frog or other surface-swimming creature).
- Although dry-fly fishing is challenging, it is simpler than wet-fly (subsurface) fishing. Once the fly is on the water, dry-fly fishing is a two-dimensional game compared to wet-fly fishing, which is three-dimensional. But wet-fly fishing does not require the degree of casting skill that dry-fly fishing requires, so many people take up the wet fly first.
- Dry-fly fishermen use the same basic technique to fish a dry fly whether or not fish are rising. In both cases, the fisherman casts to a specific target - the rising fish or a spot in the water where a fish might lie. If no fish are rising, the fisherman must read the water to determine from its speed, depth and general character where the fish are located. In other words, he fishes not to rising fish but to spots where the fish should be.
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