If you're new to fly fishing, or maybe a semi-pro, I'm sure out fly fishing techniques will be of use to you! We have techniques on how to fly fish trout, sea trout and salmon.

Trout Fishing Techniques


Sea Trout Fishing Techniques
When you are going fly fishing for trout, stillwater or on a river there are a number of techniques that can be used:
Lure stripping (Streamers)
Here you have to mimic a tiny fish or fairly fast moving bait. I've found that this technique has produced some of my best catches. A quick sinking line, cast a prodigious distance, uing a weighted fly brought in with a number of quick jerks is the usual way of doing this.

Dry Fly - moving
This involves using some flies like the Popper, Muddler, and Hugh Falkus' Surface Lure that are designed to attract a lot of fish by creating a surface disturbance.
Surface film fly
There are a number of very popular new emerger flies (like the Shipmans) that are fished 'in the surface film' rather than on it . These flies represent the nymph in the process of metamorphosis. These are also often fished static.

Wet Fly
A technique that has been used for years. This involves the fly being fished sub-surface, and then retrieved very slowly using a 'Figure-of-Eight' technique of the line in your hand. You can use a floating or intermediate line.

Sea Trout Fly Fishing

The most important aspects of sea trout fly fishing are:
Never start fishing until it gets dark, so that you don't have tp put the fish down straight away.
Wait until you hear the fish start splashing, and then make plans on how to fish that spot.
You have to be at ease: -
-with your equipment so that you know right away where things are
- with the river so that you know the area well
- and mentally so that you concentrate on the fishing 100%
You must concentrate on where you think the fish will be or where there is lots of activity.
Make sure you keep everything really simple. Remember to use one fly and a very short leader as sorting out tackle problems can be difficult at night.


Salmon Fishing Techniques

T he flies are normally heavier
- Position is very important to be successful. You have to be fishing by a place where salmon like to rest, unless you see a fish moving.
-It is lure fishing instead of imitative of insects (e.g. the fly should be moving as though it were a very small fish).
-As you must tackle-up expecting to hook a huge fish, the strength of your leader, etc must be suitable for this possiblity.
- To get the fly down in moving water a sink-tip flyline is a definite must.
- To make sure you stay 'in touch' with the fly and to avoid any rapid accelerations of the fly which wouldn't be characteristic of a tiny bait fish, it is necessary to fix the line every now and then. This involves you 'flipping' the line so that the downstream belly made by the action of the current, is changed into an upstream belly. This action makes the angler fish mostly with a straight, direct connection to the fly.
- On a river, the best and most productive time to fish is as the river levels fall after all the bad weather clears.
- The normal advice for connecting with a salmon is to let the fish take the line, and then tighten into the fish slowly without a deliberate 'strike'.
- When playing with a salmon you are advised to move downstream.