How To Fly Fish With A Dry Fly
I started fly fishing at about the age of 13 with my grandpa's fly rod, mostly for bluegills and bass in the few freshwater ponds I found maturing near Satellite Beach, Florida, and continued for a while after moving to Titusville, primarily at Fox Lake. My rod was a 5 wt. freshwater rod, not actually created for the seatrout and redfish of the Indian River Lagoon system, though I did handle a few seatrout here and there utilizing small banners developed for freshwater rainbow and other types of trout usually related to cold-water northern and mountain streams. The thing to bear in mind is you will still have to clean the reel frequently. Now that you have a rod and reel, begin searching for line. The line required for saltwater fly-fishing need to be more pricey than normal, this is since they need to be thicker for larger fish. The line needs to be dressed with dressing, which will result in better performance. Now an artificial fly is added to the end of the leader. Both damp an...