Typologies of flies for fishing

Types of flies used for fishing

Flies It is the lure par excellence for fly fishing, they are small artificial that imitate insects, depending on the state of maturity of insects, we can find a wide range of flies, they are also extremely light lures.

Types of flies or lures used: Dried, Nymphs, Streamers, Mimmers, Fishing with dry fly. We refer to the use of flies that are located on the surface of water floating above it, are very common the use of feathers and hairs to give our flies greater buoyancy, it is an art of craftsmanship and there are genuine craftsmen Flycatchers that design and manufacture their own lures with delicacy and perfection.

There are many types of dry flies but undoubtedly the most famous are the Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff or the Adams. Fishing with nymphs In this case, the fly fishermen rely on the larval stage of the flies to build their lures, this type of flies called nymphs work underwater, have lower flotation capacity so that they can submerge underwater more easily, for both lesser amount of feathers are used for its manufacture, and additional weight or ballast is provided to immerse them better. The models of nymphs most used are the pheasant tail, Zug Bug or the Hare Ear or Hare's Ear.

Fishing with streamers The lure for the trout fishing par excellence, the streamer pretends to look like and imitate the small fish and crustaceans that the trout eat, like the nymphs, an extra weight is added so that they can act under the water, the streams Most used are Marabou Muddler, Woolly Bugger, Bucktails Streamers or the Zonker. It is very common in the world of fly fishing to make the catch and release or return fishing, since the philosophy of the fly fisherman is closely related to the care of the environment and a deep respect towards the fauna and flora that in rivers, reservoirs, marshes or streams coexist there.

The equipment and the flies for black bass He is the habitual one to fish the black bass, cane of nine feet (tip action) and line of the eight, if possible, decentralized. There is one especially that goes very well and that is designed to fish basses on the surface. It's called "bass bug taper". Low line long, but not excessively, with twelve feet will suffice, endings of 0.25 to 0.30 will be good to ensure large fish and, above all, not to curl, although if necessary we would lower the thickness.

Fly fishing strategy for black bass. Fishing while waiting: this type of fishing is perfect especially at the tips of the reservoirs or outgoing dives, where "mama black bass" is two meters deep and is not disturbed by anything, but a mouthful as exquisite as the one of a dragonfly will make it raise, although always after making sure that it will not tore it. It is a kind of fishing for peaceful people, patience is the best weapon.

If you thought that fishing with popper was the maximum of tranquility, you will realize that this fishing is made for people with blood of ice, because, I have even managed to nail basses after more than five interminable minutes without batting an eye, and of course, without moving the fly, disappearing in the softest of attacks. I recommend you to be very attentive, as most fishermen expect a brutal dive, splashed with water by these fish. However, it is usually the opposite. In addition, if we are not attentive, he will immediately expel the fly from his mouth, realizing that it is "a bit" of a lie.

To nail these fish is better to do it laterally, because the fly is so long standing, even using floating lines, the bottom line is sinking to be longer, makes more belly and if we nailed vertically take a few tenths of a second more apart of costing us more work. Fishing lurking: we will look for them by the edges, throwing our dragonfly in front, to alert them. If before resting our imitation in the water we lift it as soon as we touch it, and we return to pose, we will end up enraging and swallow it this time with a true bass attack.

In addition, when the basses are grouped and hunting, do not wait for your partner who first, is the classic "I eat it so you do not eat it yourself". Another strategy to follow very simple is to locate the sides of basses after the dragonflies, we will see with our own eyes how they chase and jump out of the water to catch them.

It will be easy in this case to deceive them easily with our imitation, but the biggest ones will not fool around, nor will they chase the crazy, they know how to wait in their querencias or hunting grounds and when they have to move to get what they want. Test the dragonflies and fish while waiting, you will get less copies, but I assure you that they will be bigger. Take care of them and let them go, well, as a good friend told me, these fish are special. Other curiosities about dragonflies.

These beautiful insects, which some will identify as "caballitos del diablo" are harmless to humans, because they do not sting, because they do not have stings or suck blood.

They are hunters who kill their prey by holding them with their strong legs and breaking them into pieces with powerful jaws. Many are the dragonflies that are flying around the world and comprise some 3,600 species of insects belonging to the order of the odonata (Odonata) that live mostly in tropical areas. The largest dragonfly that was known lived in the Permian and Carboniferous periods, and measured seventy centimeters with open wings. Can you imagine the basses how they should be? However, currently and only here we can see the maximum exponent of the real dragonfly (Anax imperator) that only reaches eleven centimeters with wings extended. The larvae live in the water, staying under it for one to four years, depending on the species.

They feed on trichopterans, ephemeroptera, tadpoles and fish fry, as well as other small invertebrates. To pick up speed, they throw water from the respiratory chamber of their abdomen with force and thus trap their victims more quickly and at the same time hide from their predators.

One of the most important virtues of these insects when they are adults, apart of course of the magnificent flight they perform, is their powerful sight, as they have compound eyes, reaching ten thousand lenses per eye in some species, which gives them a singular vision The suborder of the dragonflies (Isoptera) includes perfect flying insects that at rest keep the wings extended, while the damselflies (Zygóptera) are more buzzards flying and fold their wings when they alight. In addition, we will find the latter in higher areas, even where our high mountain trout live, and live a few weeks as adults, while the adult dragonfly lives around four months.

Species plus catches in fly fishing with droppers Droppers, double mounts for all species Dropper mount fly fishingBecause some flyman no longer remembers the entanglements he made during his first steps as a pitcher, here is the solution and surely if he has never tried it, when he does he will remember those first and catastrophic sets. Although everything has a solution and practice, like everything in life, will be the key to launch (of course with the right equipment) these flies, which also give you success in rare or complicated situations for all types of fish.

And with both marine and freshwater species, predators or not. Why not try it? Among the great variety of flies and fishing systems, there is one that stands out for its way of acting; they are not simple flies, neither double, neither tandem, they are called droppers and they are not another thing that two flies separated by a few centimeters of nylon. Normally one larger than the other, almost always the first one will be in charge of attracting attention, being very attractive for fish, but fishing with the second, smaller and discreet, and also more appetizing.

This system will solve weird or complicated situations and with different species, as we will see later. It is not a system to fish two by two, even if it happens sometimes, since almost always what will be treated is that one of the flies calls and the other fishing. It is the old trick of the "teaser" so well known by the tall fishermen.

Trout Reel and fly fishing rod To fish this salmonid, every day more scarce in our waters, we can use a dropper for very clear waters and moderate currents that has also given me results in other types of scenarios.

A large and visible fly is tied followed by a nymph and at a distance of forty to fifty centimeters (always depending on the depth and current of the river). They can be knotted in different ways, but the best is joined by the same line bass, as shown in the drawing, although it has the problem that the fly that goes above nails badly, but it is quite effective to fish with nymphs drifting (without ballasting) apart from being a really good system for those fishermen who do not dominate fishing with sunken flies.

This dry-nymph dropper will go perfectly and the dry fly will serve as a chopper indicator, in addition to fishing also sometimes while serving as an attractor. But this assembly can be varied if what we want is to make it work the other way around. You put on a colorful nymph and a dry fly as a whole, the nymph will make you move, but you will eat the fly that is sailing above. The difference comes when assembling them so that the first key is good, and we will have to use two different threads, one is the main one and tied to the dry one, and the other is a branch that is attached to it in front of the dry fly and where tie the nymph. It is not very orthodox, but it also works.

 

In addition, with black bass it is relatively common that we get to nail two fish simultaneously Barbel. In some swamps, barbels and carps are becoming more aggressive every day, or at least we are realizing it now, as catches of these cyprinids with streamer are becoming more frequent.

But the most normal situation when we fish in this way is this: we are fishing pike or black bass with streamer and sometimes they simply come behind (barbs or carps, but also bogas) without actually catching it. I advise you in these situations that you put a nymph next, you will be surprised at the simple way of taking fish. You can mount the dropper in the ways already indicated, but the fastest and most effective is to tie a piece of nylon twenty to thirty centimeters long, in the same curve of the hook.

There is no danger of taking the thread that is tied to the curve of the hook, if the knot moved down, would stop with the death of the hook of the streamer, although it should be checked frequently, because the same sharpening of the hook can go wearing the null to split it.

The combined popper-nymph dropper for the barbels or popper streamer also works, the second being of very small dimensions. In this case, the best results are obtained with clear colors and without reflections. Pike For this fish, it is not really necessary to use droppers, because when they are set they will attack, and when they rest, we will not move them with anything. Although it could be useful to us in very fishy places in which the systematic rejection to our imitations would be the tonic.

By putting a dropper of two streamers together, ten to fifteen centimeters away, the results can change. When fishing in places of aquatic vegetation or places where they can hide, one solution is to put a dropper popper-streamer, or better yet, diver-streamer, but with a greater margin in the distance of the two flies. The system to tie a dropper with a sledge hammer is part of fastening it very well to the hook before making the fly. If we use steel terminals, it must also be fixed before starting the streamer or diver tying.

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