Fly Fishing for Trout
" I am a beginner Fly-fisherman ...
And Managed to Land 8 Rainbow Trout in a Matter of 2 Hours! ...
I purchased Wayne Smith’s Trout fishing book about 1 month ago & am very pleased with the book. The book was so easy to understand, read & apply including the methods of tying flies.
Wayne’s book opened my eyes to a whole new way of fly fishing where endless research of entomology was not even necessary."
Clintin De Jager
Durban, South Africa
Author: Wayne Smith
Fly Fishing is such a traditional sport many refer to as an art form, and compared to other modes of fishing, incorporates so much to learn in terms of casting technique, and more particularly the study of the trout's diet, and their imitations, that it can distract anglers from focussing sufficiently on their quarry's habits and behaviour. If you want to catch more Trout, and particularly larger Trout, you need to know more about the Trout than you do about casting and their diet.
The deeper I looked, the more things just didn't make sense. I reared both Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout in my lounge room aquarium and studied them closely. From atop steep banks of clear pools on the trout stream, I experimented and studied them.
There was finally but one conclusion I could make. We, as fly fishermen , to a large degree, have been kidding ourselves for a very long time. Looking realistically at many of the trout flies, it seemed that the trout must either be half blind, or quite stupid, to accept many of them as the insects being imitated. Either way, it detracted from the achievement of having deceived them.
The more I critically analyzed the whole routine of fly fishing, the more assumptions I recognised as having been made to compensate for our lack of understanding. At best, some of the assumptions may have been correct to some degree, but could never be proven or confirmed. At worst, some were just blatantly wrong.
These assumptions have been cycled for so long they have just been accepted as fact. The Trout have been considered 'Unpredictable' because their behaviour or actions didn't always fit what we would have expected when fly fishing. No-one, it seems, had ever thought about the possibility of their actions not matching our expectations because our beliefs could be flawed.
I started evaluating alternative possibilities. Gradually I put the puzzle of flyfishing together. Eventually, those long standing questions had answers. The trout behaviour then became extremely predictable. I started taking advantage of these findings. Having realized I didn't need to imitate anything to induce fish takes, I was able to construct flies which could do specific jobs for me rather than imitating anything.
With each of the situations I encountered on the water mastered, the results just automatically followed. I had seemingly mastered the sport of fly fishing. About the Author Wayne Smith
Author of the acclaimed 'Fly Fishing For Trout - A Quiet Revolution'
www.FlyFishingForTrout.com Fishing Sponsor Site: Fishing Tackle and Bait E-commerce website selling fishing tackle and bait.
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