Ready for your next fly fishing vocation? Here we have some tips for your adventure.

 

• - Remeber fish in general don’t like the Sun. They like areas that provide shades. So if it is sunny out, look for trees and bridges that cast shades.
• - Fish are cold blooded, and they often move around to find the most comfortable sports. In the spring and fall, the best fishing usually starts a few hours after the sunrise. In the summer, fish early and late when it is cooler.
• - Look for fish in the water where the riverbed has a mix of coarse gravel, pebbles, and rocks. Often they are the places where insect larvae, crayfish and small fish hide and feed. Because it is uneven, such a bottom creates many pockets of slow water where trout, bass or pansish hide out.
• - Hire a good, competent guide. A good guide will help you choose the right equipment, read the water, cast, and teach you other skills you will need to catch the fish. You will also get hands-on experience on how to hook, play and land the fish from the guide. Even you are pretty good already, a guide can help you learn the area.
• - Trout usually hold close to the surface for food and they don’t tend to spend much energy feeding. So you need cast accurately. Any sudden movement like the flash from the reflection of the rod or the flick of a fly line will alert the trout. Slow movement is needed.
• - Wading when it is necessary. When approaching the fish, try to get close enough to cast without wading. No matter how careful you are, wading creates disturbance and should be avoided whenever possible. The best way to wade is not to shuffle your feet across the riverbed so no wave action is created. Always walk slowly, carefully and precisely.
• - Check the direction of the wind before the approach. If possible, try to get the wind behind you and avoid the position in which the wind blows from your casting arm and across your body. The wind affect the accuracy of casting dramatically.
• - Don’t follow the crowd and looks for fish in overlooked water. Places that are often overlooked like shallows, and fast pocket water provide good fishing. Or just cross the river to the other side opposite the road or access trail.
• - If you practice catch-and-release, sometime it is better to leave a deeply embedded hook in a fish’s mouth and cut the line than to try to get the hook out. The hook will dissolve over the time.