Welcome to Apex Fishing Tips, this section of our website is dedicated to the art of fly fishing and how to catch fish when fly fishing. Fly fishing is a popular method of fishing that uses a fly rod, fly reel and artificial flies. This web page is going to help improve your fly fishing skills and help you catch bigger fish, more often.
Below you'll find 7 fly fishing tips that will help improve your knowledge of fly fishing and your success at catching fish. Fly fishing can be used to catch a wide variety of fish, but it's most popular for catching trout. Fly fishing is more difficult than other traditional fishing methods but it can yield amazing results. Continue down below to learn more about fly fishing.
In addition to 7 fly fishing tips, we have a checklist of all the fishing gear and tackle you'll need to go fly fishing. You'll also find some awesome pictures of other people fly fishing from around the world. If you need more resources and information on fly fishing, you'll find it at the bottom of this web page.
The history of fly fishing goes back about 1,800 years, when Roman author Claudius Aurelianus first recorded how the Macedonians used of artificial flies to catch fish. Fly fishing has involved a lot since then, but the practice is still the same. Fly fishing is the use of an artificial fly, coupled with a fly rod, reel and specialized line to catch fish. Anglers around the world use fly fishing as their primary method of catching fish.
Anglers can catch a wide variety of fish using an artificial fly, but fly fishing is mostly popularized to catch different species of graylings, salmon and trout. Artificial flies are designed to replicate a living organism, like insects and crustaceans. Successful anglers will use artificial flies that replicate whatever fish on feeding on at that time of year, improving their chances at catching more fish.
The below fly fishing checklist has the fishing gear and tackle you might need when you go fly fishing.
A picture of someone fly fishing in a small river.
(Credit: Bakh World / Flickr)
A picture of someone fly fishing on a boat in the USA.
(Credit: USFWS / Flickr)
A picture of someone fly fishing for trout in Japan.
(Credit: chin-toy / Flickr)