{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Looking to trade info/instruction/trips

Remember too that an important part of fishing is the trading of tips and stories about things that are extremely unlikely to have ever happened! 

Other tips for transitioning to fly fishing:

Indicators are actually bobbers

Woolly buggers are actually marabou jigs, only they weigh a little less (I tie them on jigheads now, so mine are heavy)

Clouser minnows (as tied by most people) are essentially bucktail jigs

A popper is a popper

Flies with spinners do exist, but they're ridiculously hard to cast in the larger sizes......stick with UL spin tackle for "mechanical" lures IMO

If you can put lures into the right place and you know how to work them the way fish like, you'll have no problems using fly tackle to catch fish right away.  I liked UL spin tackle and tube jigs, and working small flies was very similar to me when I started.  It's the casting you'll have to work on a bit to get good consistency doing. 

I feel like you can do things with a lure/fly with a fly rod that are more "fishy" than what you can do with spin/bait tackle, but that's just my opinion. 

Then if you venture more into "trout fishing", you'll get into where the 2 tackle types seem to diverge a lot more.....with slack line presentations, mending a drift, roll casting to keep a dry from getting wet, etc. 

Trout fishing with fly tackle is wonderful, and you can also catch a lot of other species too.  I suggest you do it all!  ;)

Gene

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 8:41:48 AM UTC-4, namfos wrote:

Unfortunately there are no fly shops downtown either. Come to the Beer Tie on Monday if you can. You'll at least get to put faces to the names here. And you'll be able to get an earful about fly fishing for other species in addition to trout.

 

Mark

On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:43:21 AM UTC-4, Pete Robbins wrote:

Unfortunately I'll be downtown Tuesday and Wednesday.

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