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We all know what a rod is used for to catch fish. The rod must have some stiffness but flexible, rugged but delicate. If is was only used to pull fish in than you could just use a stick or a branch. But fly fishing for fish has four jobs or purposes: Casting the fly to the fish, goal is to reach the fish where they are feeding or hiding and do it so not to spook the fish with a splash on the water. With trout looking up feeding on bug you want a delicate presentation to look like...

Part IV: Fly Fishing for beginners - Rod of Choice   The fly rodding is steeped in tradition, fly rods are not. English man of the 1800s fished with no fancy split-cane bamboo rods. The fly rod of that day was just a branch cut out of a willow or even an ash tree. The bamboo rod which is what I think of when I think of a traditional rod of old, but it came along in the late 1800s and was used for almost 100 years. Bamboo rod I can remember hanging on my porch as a child with...

Noises When you are fishing you need to be as quiet as possible. Fish can hear you from a long ways away, and between shadows and noise that is your worst enemy. Whether it is in a boat banging oars around or charging into a pool of water where you know trout are feeding, stealth (being quiet) is the best approach. The lateral line talked a while back on this blog, is a special sensory organ that a fish uses to feel vibrations in the water. To a fish vibration means danger is close and time to find shelter and...

If you have never fished or wet a lines as some anglers would say. That is okay. I started as a boy in a small pond in the woods out behind my house. Full of bass I could catch them with bubble gum I think and I had parents and cousins to show me how. But if you are starting later in life and never had the experience or a mentor that is okay you still can become an angler in a lots of different ways. Fishing with Mom and Dad is a great start, as long as they have...

In Reading this blog this blog your are interested in catching fish. Maybe you never fished before or just want to learn something new. Three whether you are experience or novice all anglers need:   Fish Fisherman Gear   A fish Cold blooded animal live in the water, fins, breath oxygen through it gills. Fish like eels have fins, manta rays have fins to navigate, breath through gills.   You the angler is concerned, fish eat: other fish, insects and other crustaceans, reptile, that live int the water. Some fish even in plants. Fishing is the art of convincing the...