People watch fly fishing on television and they think that beginner fly fishing must be very easy because it looks like that on television. First of all what you are watching on television is not beginner fly fishing, that is fly fishing being done by professionals with years of experience who have worked on [...]

Before spending a ton of money on equipment and heading out to the water, it will pay to receive some fly fishing instruction to prevent becoming frustrated with the sport. One of the most difficult aspects of fly fishing is learning to cast the line accurately. An angler can learn a lot about the sport [...]

Instead of talking about the one that got away, perfect your fly fishing knots and land that next catch during your fly fishing trip. While there are quite a few fishing knots that you can learn, just a few are needed to see you through your entire fishing experience. Many people new to the sport [...]

You can learn a lot about certain things including fly fishing from sheer experience, which they say is a great teacher. Even though you may have spent a lot of time in reading about the topic, or may have spent time watching others fly fish, you may still never be able to master the art [...]

Although fly fishing was credited first to the Roman Claudius Aelianus sometime during the second century, modern history of fly fishing is said to have really originated on the rivers of Scotland and northern England. Fly fishing was directly associated with a book called The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, published in 1496, attributed [...]

Seasoned fly fishermen usually say the same thing when confronted on the question of how to fly fish – get your casting technique down for maximum fish catching. Unlike regular rod and reel fishing where the weight at the end of the line is what helps the line exit the reel, it is the weight [...]

One of the toughest things about learning to fish with flies is casting the bait onto the water so that it lands where the fish are swimming around, looking for food. Understanding how the equipment works, as opposed to traditional fishing equipment is an important step to learn to fly fish, and figuring out how [...]