subject: Learn the Popular Trout Fishing Flies [print this page] Trout fishing is an exciting sport that entails patience and perseverance. When fishing for trout, fly fishing is recommended for shallow waters. Trout are a beautiful species and are quite intelligent and like to feed on other small fish and water insects. They have very good eyesight and can easily determine a fishing line or a hook and they enjoy cooler water temperatures. Trout fishing is fun when you know their characteristics, their likes and dislikes and when you know how and where to fish them.
Traditionally, dry fly lures are widely used by anglers for fly fishing methods. The fly resembles a water insect. It is a small piece comprised of fur or feathers and other like materials, tied to a hook, resembling an insect. Fly fishing is casting the fishing line onto the surface of the water and letting the trout fly float like a real water insect.
Dry flies refer to the artificial flies that are created with a semblance very close to nature's flies. Normally, trout flies are used for fishing at the break of ice when trout need to feed from the surface and the water temperature is conducive to them. These dry trout flies range from a dragonfly, mayfly, sedges, damsel flies, caddies, flying ants and midges. Tying these dry trout flies must be strategic and technically sound to be able to catch the trout.
Wet flies resemble flying insects. These flies are like mayfly nymphs, floating along the current. Woolly buggers are good in rivers where trout thrive. Nymphs have long rubber legs and are great to cast to the shore and keep them down to the bottom or drift downstream along with boat's speed. Woolly buggers are examples of wet trout flies. Trout flies resembling bugs or maggots found underwater. These trout flies are tied to hooks, heavier than the ones used in dry fly fishing, to keep the nymph below the waters surface.
Streamer flies are considered the best trout flies patterns. This type of fly resembles the small floating bait-fish. They are used in fast flowing streams or rivers with currents where trout abound. If you're fishing for the bigger trout, streamer flies are perfect.
There are many ways to enjoy trout fishing when you are using the numerous trout fishing flies available.
