XJBANKER
Explorer
My memories of fishing growing up with my Dad were catching Rainbow Trout up at our cabin. I remember it was slow, boring and I liked to run around playing in the trees until he said he caught one and would come to help pull it in or whack it on a rock to welcome it to being ready to become dinner. Overall I never had an interest in fishing and a few months before I met my wife, I Bought a fly rod, reel and a pack of flies and some rubber boots. I went out once with a friend and did not have a clue how to even cast or what the concept was. I did have fun though. Then I met my wife, got married, built my jeep, home remodel projects, two kids, got a Counqueror Trailer and started camping a lot. Still fishing did not come into mind until a trip that I just took with my dad.
I live in Utah and went to Prince of Whales, Alaska. www.boardwalklodge.com
My dad's nephew owns the lodge and invited us up there to fish for a week. We caught Halibut, Yellow Eye, King, Silver and Pink Salmon, Lincods, and some rock fish. Overall it was AWESOME! I really liked the salmon fishing the best, but all of it was off the boat, trolling or mooching. They are Orvis Endorced and could have gone Fly fishing out on the river and had some good lessons, but my dad has some major foot problems that he actually had surgery to correct a few days ago, so we stuck to spending the week on the boat.
Now that I am home the need to go fishng it pulling at me all the time. I don't have a boat and I like the idea of learning to fish a pond stocked with trout, bass and carp close to my house with the fly rod I already have or the Weber river.I have watched a few video's on how to cast and have been practicing in my yard, but I have no idea where to start with fly selection, how to find good spots to fish and so on. I know it will be slower than the double didget fish I pulled in everyday in Alaska and the fish I will be catching here will look more like bait compared to the monsters to me that I caught there, but I would be happy to actually catch 1 fish on the fly rod to know I am doing something right.
So what advice can I get to start? Any basics that I need to know or should start with that is not too complicated for a beginner? Things like how long should my tippet be or size or types or sizes of flies to start with? It will be a slow learning process, but the idea of landing a fish again gets my blood pumping. I even enjoyed catching fish a little bigger than my bait so Im looking for for the fun of landing a fish for now and hopefully by the time my fish in my freezer runs low I will be able to catch something for dinner every once in a while. Any help would be great, again I think I am HOOKED!
I live in Utah and went to Prince of Whales, Alaska. www.boardwalklodge.com
My dad's nephew owns the lodge and invited us up there to fish for a week. We caught Halibut, Yellow Eye, King, Silver and Pink Salmon, Lincods, and some rock fish. Overall it was AWESOME! I really liked the salmon fishing the best, but all of it was off the boat, trolling or mooching. They are Orvis Endorced and could have gone Fly fishing out on the river and had some good lessons, but my dad has some major foot problems that he actually had surgery to correct a few days ago, so we stuck to spending the week on the boat.
Now that I am home the need to go fishng it pulling at me all the time. I don't have a boat and I like the idea of learning to fish a pond stocked with trout, bass and carp close to my house with the fly rod I already have or the Weber river.I have watched a few video's on how to cast and have been practicing in my yard, but I have no idea where to start with fly selection, how to find good spots to fish and so on. I know it will be slower than the double didget fish I pulled in everyday in Alaska and the fish I will be catching here will look more like bait compared to the monsters to me that I caught there, but I would be happy to actually catch 1 fish on the fly rod to know I am doing something right.
So what advice can I get to start? Any basics that I need to know or should start with that is not too complicated for a beginner? Things like how long should my tippet be or size or types or sizes of flies to start with? It will be a slow learning process, but the idea of landing a fish again gets my blood pumping. I even enjoyed catching fish a little bigger than my bait so Im looking for for the fun of landing a fish for now and hopefully by the time my fish in my freezer runs low I will be able to catch something for dinner every once in a while. Any help would be great, again I think I am HOOKED!