Tips for Beginners: Check Your Fly

When learning to fly fish, we all have a tendency to break our wrist on the backcast and/or have timing problems. These errors lead to whip cracking, rock smacking and weed snagging. All of these faults equate to losing flies and breaking hooks.

You can usually notice when you lose a fly because you will hear a whip crack or are unable to see the fly land on the water. The bigger problem is hook breakage. Many times, you can fish for an hour or so and wondered why you cannot set a hook. Usually you will find that the hook has broken off.

This tip might seem fairly elementary; however, it’s usually the simplest remedies that will result in more fish landed.