It’s one thing getting hits when fly fishing but its a completely different thing actually landing it. Playing and netting fish are two aspects of fly fishing that get less attention than they deserve. This post just glosses the surface but it may help.
Lakes and impoundment’s are not just big volumes of homogeneous water denuded of any structure even though at first glance that may be how they seem. Lakes are full of structures, or effected by structures, of one form or another that dramatically influence the available food sources, the temperature of the water and the general comfort zone of the trout.
This post lists all the materials you will need to tie all the flies in the course “abc of fly tying for trout” plus heaps of other flies.
If you approach your fly selection on the basis that trout eat anything, over time (probably your first outing) you will miss fish that a more discerning fly fisher would at least win a look from. For example, on Lake Eucumbene when we are having a good hopper season, if you tie a fly on that is a good representation of the local hopper you have almost as good a chance as any hopper of attracting the interest of a fish. If however you tie the same fly on in the middle of August you can float that fly around the dam (in this case dam dam) all day and not even raise a fish.
The number of fly boxes you carry is obviously one of personal choice. One difficulty you may encounter when you are setting up your fly boxes is which flies you should include, and how many flies you should carry in your fly box or boxes. The last thing you want to be doing is standing on the bank of a river madly pulling flies out to find a fly you know is there . . .somewhere, but it isn’t where you expected to find it or you fly box or boxes are so crowded with flies that the one you are desperately looking for is hidden away . . . somewhere.
The weight of a fly line can also be expressed in ‘grains’ of weight where the number represents the weight of the taper of the fly line. A simple conversion of line weight, for single handed fly rods, to grains is expressed in the following table.
