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It depends what and where you are fishing. Sometimes you will just let it sit and drift, sometimes you will kind of swing it in the current, sometimes you'll use a herky jerky retrieve. FYI - in fly fishing you usually retrieve line by just stripping it in with your hands. The reel is mainly used for fighting larger fish and holding line.

It's a lake, not a stream.

loochy

07-27-2012 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief (Post 8771375)

Yes, if you snap the end of the line without leader you’ll fray out the end of your fly line making it worthless.

plus you need to learn how to turn over the leader properly.

loochy

07-27-2012 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771378)

Wow, I'm ****ed. I only know how to tie one type of fishing knot.

Don't worry, they are super easy. The surgeon's knot is probably the easiest.

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771378)

It's a lake, not a stream.

My above statement still applies. Sometimes you let it sit, sometimes you strip it in fast, sometimes you creep it in.

Ace Gunner

07-27-2012 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771361)

Oh, and with fly fishing, do you just let the fly sit there and do you reel it in slowly?

I've tried a billion moves with flies and don't recall any of them ever really working, although it does work with wet flies. Hits come with the right choice in fly and being sneaky imo:D

loochy

07-27-2012 10:24 AM

Donger, go to the library and check out a book on fly fishing basics.

Donger

07-27-2012 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior (Post 8771384)

Don't worry, they are super easy. The surgeon's knot is probably the easiest.

Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.

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Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior (Post 8771384)

My above statement still applies. Sometimes you let it sit, sometimes you strip it in fast, sometimes you creep it in.

Thanks.

Radar Chief

07-27-2012 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771361)

Oh, and with fly fishing, do you just let the fly sit there and do you reel it in slowly?

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Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior (Post 8771371)

http://www.flyfishingnewbie.com/gear...s/line-map.jpg

It depends what and where you are fishing. Sometimes you will just let it sit and drift, sometimes you will kind of swing it in the current, sometimes you'll use a herky jerky retrieve. FYI - in fly fishing you usually retrieve line by just stripping it in with your hands. The reel is mainly used for fighting larger fish and holding line.

What TUW said.
If you’re using poppers, small jig, wooly worm or something similar you want to give it some action but something like dry flies you let sit and drift.

loochy

07-27-2012 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771392)

Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.

That sounds like a clinch knot. It is used for attaching hooks and lures to standing line.

Radar Chief

07-27-2012 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Donger (Post 8771392)

Perhaps, but I don't even know the name of the knot I know how to use. It's the one where you make a loop, wrap the line around itself eight times or so and then back through the loop.

Cinch knot.

Radar Chief

07-27-2012 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by The Ultimate Warrior (Post 8771399)

That sounds like a clinch knot. It is used for attaching hooks and lures to standing line.

Heh, clinch cinch. Tomayto tomahto.

Donger

07-27-2012 10:29 AM

Great, so I have to learn a new knot?

Ace Gunner

07-27-2012 10:29 AM

I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The ****ing fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:D

loochy

07-27-2012 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by chiefsfootballfan (Post 8771413)

I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The ****ing fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:D

The knots aren't hard to learn at all and they may offer increased line strength and ease of tying. I'd rather fiddle with a surgeon's knot than a blood knot while standing in the middle of a river in low light conditions.

Donger

07-27-2012 10:32 AM

Does this look correct?

http://mofishing.net/images/Knots/Surgeons%20Knot.gif

Radar Chief

07-27-2012 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by chiefsfootballfan (Post 8771413)

I only know/use cinch knot & nail knot. The ****ing fish don't give a shit what knot is on that fly, they only care about what fly is on the knot:D

The biggest difference between knots is how much strength they cause your line to lose. As the knot is being cinched down it rubs against itself flattening, fray, even slightly cutting the line. Some knots are worse about this than others. Seems like the cinch knot retains around 80% line strength but I’m pulling that from memory.

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