Practical Application

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Topics to Remember...
  This is the section dedicated to helping you understand and develop skills that will allow you to perform efficiently on the stream. Everything from purchasing the proper gear to releasing your fish is critical to your enjoyment of the sport. You will be able to practice these skills on our field trips.
  • Equipment:  Rod/Reel/Lines/Leaders; vest/boots/hat/glasses;
                       nets/clippers/thermometer/camera/insect repellent

  • Leaders and knots:  improved clinch knot/surgeons knot/blood knot/nail knot

  • Weights/fly boxes/pliers

  • Reading the water: edges, currents, structures where do trout live etc

  • Finding trout that might be interested in your flies

  • Fooling fish into thinking they are eating

  • Fly Selection:  size/shape/color

  • Casting-basics: presentation/roll

  • Nymph Fishing

  • Wet Fly Fishing

  • Emergers

  • Dry Fly Fishing: Duns, Spinners

  • Line control in the air and on the water

  • Approach/position/cast/drift

  • Have a fishing plan:  observe/move slowly/match hatch/start on bottom/experiment/
                                  have fun figuring out the
    ever changing puzzle which you must problem solve

  • Playing fish

  • Releasing fish

 

Topic Areas to Explore
   Essential Equipment For Fly Fishing
   Knots
   Hooks
   Dry Fly Casting
   Playing and Releasing Your Fish
   Stream Strategies
  Tactical Summaries
  Sharp Points & Hot Tips
 
© 2002 Mark Belden and the Pennsylvania State University

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