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[Constance Whiston] When I started fly-fishing in Texas, I thought
I had to learn how to tie flies. But I found out that I could get flies on the internet.
I could also go to my local fly fishing club, and visit with the members there and learn
all I needed to know about flies. I could also go to my fly-fishing store in my hometown.
The club is a good idea to visit because they’ll tell you what the fish are eating in your
area. And that’s the most important thing to know. What are the fish dining on? What
are they gonna eat? So the flies are tied to match the type of food that the fish is
eating. One of the most popular flies is this hard-body-popper.
Warm water fly-fishers love to use these because the fish will literally leap out of the water
to go after this fly. But if they are not feeding on the surface, you might want to
try a sub-surface fly like this black–bead-head- woolybooger. Or maybe how about a green and
white clouser? These are very popular too for warm water fly fishing.
There’s a large variety of flies that you can use in warm water, sponge-buds, poppers,
damsel flies. But maybe you want to fish for rainbow trout at the Guadalupe River. There
too you can fish at different levels. Fly-fishing is not all done on the surface, so you may
want to use sub-surface flies like these bead-head-nymphs, or these egg patterns.
If you’re going down to the Texas Gulf Coast, you might want to try a pencil-popper, or
a little pink shrimp pattern, or maybe this crab pattern. That’s a real popular fly
to use on the Gulf Coast. So no matter where you’re fishing, you need to know what type
of food the fish are eating. And the best way to find that out is from your local fly-fishing
club, or people in the area that fish that water. Find out what the fish are eating and
travel to the area with the flies that the fish will dine on. You want to make sure that
you go prepared when you’re out fly fishing Texas.