Fly Fishing: Getting set up

Ever wondered how to fly fish? What you need to get setup for fly fishing and how to put it all together before you start casting? This simple guide will have you set-up for the river in no time and ready to catch fish.

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Step 1 Assembling the Rod and Reel

Put the pieces of fly rod together by slipping each piece over the one below. The piece that you join together are called Ferrules.

Once your rod is assembled ensure that all the guides (the round loops that run up the rod) are lined up, this is critical to getting a good cast out.

Attached the fly reel to base of the rod, insert the base of the reel into the slit that sits under the handle of the rod and screw the rings(s) at the bottom of the rod up to lock the reel in place. Make sure you have the reel on the right way, the easiest way to work this out is by ensuring the reel handle is on the right side for winding.

Comments

[lemonie]

This lacks the pictures / diagrams that show what you describe. My guess is that this is because the full explanations are in what you're selling? L

[FlyEditor]

It is extremely hard to illustrate a number of these instructions using an image, it would require an animated gif - which I'm not sure how to create. For example, attaching your first fly is not something that you can show with one still image, it requires a knot which you cannot illustrate with an image. This was intended to educate people on the things you need to do to get set-up, including instructions for every single detail would be too verbose for this type of media.