Fishing Flies

Flies are the "bait" or "fly fishing lure" used on the hook dressed with feathers in fly fishing to attract the fish. Important: To protect your flies use a box with compartments to keep a divide between the various flies. 

The compartments protect the hackle of the flies, and the many spring-levered compartments will prevent your flies from blowing away during a windy day.

First find out what type of insects inhabits the water, where you decide to fish and then very closely imitate that specific insect with the flies in your flybox.

Try to take a close look at what the fish are rising to also. Match that insect with one of the fishing flies in your fly box.

Use a little floatant on the fly, before it gets wet and determine where you will cast your fly to. Most of the time try to cast upstream of the holding fish with as few false casts as possible. Try not to drag your leader or fly in the surface film. All fish, especially Trout are extremely wary creatures, they will shy away from a fly that does not look nor act like a real insect.

If you are doing everything right, try giving the fly some action. That would be something like picking up your leader and "skating" or skittering the fly across the surface film. Using this technique will "entice" a strike, doing exactly the opposite what you would've think a trout would want. It seems to imitate an adult skittering on the surface laying eggs.

More on Flies:

Dry Flies - When the fish a rising.

Wet Flies - When fishing in dams or fast flowing waters.

Saltwater Flies - To fish the Blue Water!

Fly Tying - Build your on Flies

Related Reading:

Attractor Trout Fly Fishing Flies Collection The 24 flies in this collection have been catching fish for a long time and will continue to do so.

They work especially when fish are not keying in on one particular pattern. The collection includes the following fly patterns in a variety of sizes: 3 H&L Variant's, 3 Yellow Humpy's, 3 Red Humpy's, 3 Irresistibles, 3 Royal Coachmen, 3 Royal Trudes, 3 Adams Wulff and 3 Royal Wulff's.

That's 24 flies which will tempt even the pickiest trout!

Western Trout Fly Fishing Flies Collection This collection will cover a wide variety of Western Water fly hatches and includes the following 39 dry flies and nymphs in various sizes:

Dries: 3 Adams Parachute, 3 Parachute Blue-winged Olives (Baetis), 2 Green Drakes, 3 Pale Morning Duns, 2 Red Quills, 2 Trico Spinners, 1 Fluttering Stonefly, 3 Tan Elk Hair Caddis, 3 Brown Elk Hair Caddis, 3 Whit's Hopper, and the following nymphs: 3 Pheasant Tails, 3 Beadhead Hare's Ear's, 3 Beadhead Prince Nymphs, 1 Brown San Juan Worm, 2 Black Flashabuggers, and 2 Brown Stonefly nymphs.

That's 39 flies that Western Trout can't resist!