Tomorrow is my first time fly fishing since I was a kid. Never fly fished for trout. This is the box I put together, what do you think? What can I expect? Fishing a larger river and a small creek
Posted by Street-Berry2306
Tomorrow is my first time fly fishing since I was a kid. Never fly fished for trout. This is the box I put together, what do you think? What can I expect? Fishing a larger river and a small creek
Posted by Street-Berry2306
8 Comments
Good luck the rubber leg in the middle is a decent producer
Learn to cast first and foremost. Tomorrow, the flies will likely be irrelevant for two reasons: stockers dont care what you toss at them and wild fish probably won’t take your presentation if its your first day. You have a very long but very rewarding road ahead of you
Edit to add, fish one fly at a time, you are not ready for a tandem rig. Fish the bottom right fly under an indicator (bobber). Change the depth until you are consistently getting snagged on the bottom then back it off a bit to where you hit bottom but dont get stuck. If you can see the creek bottom, dont fish that spot. Seek out moving (but not ripping) water than looks murky due to its depth. That is .01% of the information it takes to be successful but will keep you from completely wasting your time.
I’d first see what kind of bugs if any are flying around the water. That’ll influence the fly you throw. If there are a ton of bugs on the surface and flying around, a dry fly could work (like the medium size fuzzy ones you got in the middle), otherwise I’d try and nymph (fishing at or almost at the bottom) for that you’d one of the tiny skinny guys at the bottom of the image. Can also tie a dry on, followed by 12-18” of tippet then a nymph so you can fish multiple parts of the water column. For simplicity sake or if you have no tippet I’d avoid that and just chuck a nymph and work on casting. The big ones at the top of the pic are called wooly buggers and are known as a streamer, meaning you throw it and actively strip line in but that’s also slightly advanced for first time in a while. Biggest thing is drift! Look up dead drift and focus on that. The fly selection/size/color will come with experience. Good luck!
First fish will take the middle left beaded nymph.
Good luck! I would look up a quick video on mending if you don’t know what that is yet, helps a lot in the beginning for presentation, isn’t that hard to do and is super helpful for faster moving water
I’d throw that olive wooly bugger first.
Keep it simple. It doesn’t have to be pretty. Experiment and have fun. You have some solid options in this box. Let the journey begin.
Good fly choices. I’d run the rubber legs with one of the bead head nymphs as a dropper. If the water is high/muddy you can strip the wooly buggers.
Make sure u smoke some weed befoe u go!