Fly Rod Game Fish
Posted by Goody on 01/16/08 in Recreation and Sports
Fly Rod Game Fish
Fly fishing is the most fun of any kind of angling-if it works. That’s because fly casting in itself is good sport. Like golf or tennis, fly casting is interesting and enjoyable. Floating a fly skillfully over a feeding trout in a wild mountain stream is fun even if you don’t catch fish. Working a streamer fly into just the right position along a rock ledge in a bass stream is good sport even if the bass aren’t feeding much that day. And delicately laying a bass bug just to the edge of overhanging bushes on the shore of a bass lake is something that will give any sportsman a kick. BUT-I like to catch fish, too. So do you.
Catching more fish depends upon your knowing and doing four simple things. You must know (1) where to fish, (2) when to fish, (3) how to fish and (4) what tackle to use. There are easy, common-sense ways of finding out, and doing, all these things. And that’s what I shall try to tell you.
First, the fly fisherman should know something about the fish he wants to catch-what they are like, where they live, what they eat, and what they do in various natural conditions.
There are four main groups of game fish for the American fly fisherman: trout, salmon, bass and panfish.
Trout
There are four general kinds of trout for which fly fishermen of the United States and Canada fish: Rainbow trout, Cutthroat trout, Brown trout and the Char.Fly fishing for trout is the most dreamed of fishing for most anglers all over the world. Down through the years more has been written about trout than about any other game fish. One reason for this romantic angling attention is that trout is the game fish of the really wild country.
Trout are found in wilderness streams of the forest country-cold, white-water streams cascading down from pine and fir-clad mountains, through canyons where ruffed grouse drum in the thickets and deer come down to drink. Again, trout are the most beautiful of our fresh water game fish. The gorgeous coloration of an Eastern Brook Trout just out of the water almost takes your breath away with its brilliant crimson spots in their purple edgings over a rich, velvet background of black-olive. The colorful orange lower fins with their startlingly white front edges point up a beauty almost too glamorous to be believed.
But wherever you are fly fishing and for whatever type fish, this is one of the most enjoyable sports you will find.
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