Any Fly Fishers On Here

[TheDetailDoctor]

I'm just about to embark on trying to learn how to fly fish. Just wondered if there are any fly fishers on here?

[The real Apache]

I used when I was a kid

[RDM]

Reidy10 0 is possibly the man to talk to, his dad's got a fishery place and fly fishing
school thing. Was round his place at weekend and he was tying bits of dead bird onto small
sharp things to go and annoy fish.

[RadoVR6]

I do. Have only been doing it for about 2 years now but really enjoy it.

Its not easy, the casting or getting the right fly though.

I would strongly recommend casting lessons from somebody qualified. I had lessons and a friend of mine didnt. He can barely cast to save his life.

I do sea fishing and pike fishing as well but enjoy fly fishing the most.

[hman]

no, but I'm looking for a book on it by J...R...

[JR Hartley]

hman said:

no, but I'm looking for a book on it by J...R...

If you find one can you let me know?

[Stig]

TheDetailDoctor said:

I'm just about to embark on trying to learn how to fly fish. Just wondered if there are any fly fishers on here?

Yes indeedy. Got back into fishing about 7 years ago, firstly coarse, then onto fluff chucking.... err.. fly fishing.

I like them both for different reasons, coarse just to sit and watch the world go by and fly as it's more active. I've only fished fly on commercials though which makes the fishing far less of a challenge (and pretty damn expensive!),

Great sport though.

[Stig]

JR Hartley said:

hman said:

no, but I'm looking for a book on it by J...R...

If you find one can you let me know?

You do, of course, realise that it exists and is readily available on Amazon?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-Memories-Angli...

[Reidy10_0]

What you wanting to know?

www.tintotroutfishery.co.uk

Cheers

Munro

[TheDetailDoctor]

I've been battling with seting the right amount of backing onto my reel (ebay china special, should have known better) with my wf6 floating line.

It seams that there is hardly any room on the spool for backing.

[hman]

Stig said:

JR Hartley said:

hman said:

no, but I'm looking for a book on it by J...R...

If you find one can you let me know?

You do, of course, realise that it exists and is readily available on Amazon?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fly-Fishing-Memories-Angli...

As I am sure many others did at the time, we were bought one by a chum as a joke present.

I still dont fly fish though - no time!


".... You have it?, Wonderful"

[Reidy10_0]

Depending on the reel it should tell you how much backing will fit on with the relevant line weight.

I would not worry about this too much as very few people ever see their backing again once it is spooled.

Munro

[otolith]

Another one here - coarse and sea angling for longer than I care to remember, added fly fishing a couple of years ago.

If you've got two spools, you can put the fly line on first, then fill up with backing and then reverse onto the other spool. If you haven't another spool, you can take the backing and fly line off again and then put them back on in the right order.

Or just guess, like most of us do