The best way to get a quick start when you just begin to fly fish is to hire a good guide. A good guide offers great expertise and instruction. A guide will help you cast, read the water, choose the right equipment, and teach you anything in relate to fly fishing sport. You can learn a lot from a good guide about where the fish are, what they eat, what flies to use, and what time of the day. Such trip will be very rewarding in comparison to a frustrating tip you may experience as beginner and without a guide.

 

More importantly, you can get some valuable hands-on experience hooking, playing and landing fish. Even you have become an experienced angler, a good guide will help you lean about the area where you have never been before. No matter how good your expertise is and how well you are equipped, finding the fish is the most important of the sport.

 

So how to find a competent guide? Explain to your guide what you want to accomplish and ask plenty of questions such as:

 

• Where will we fish? and Why?
• What kinds of skills and equipment are needed?
• Is the guide willing to teach a beginner?
• How much will a one day trip cost?
• Is the guide willing to provide the contact information from previous clients?
• Will we use a boat or just walk the banks?

 

Make sure you ask many questions and check the references. The references are the key to finding a good guide.