looking to get into fly fishing

[gypsy]

be prepared to get totally addicted to the sport!!! Someone got me to try it 25 years ago, now I'm more than hooked, and now got into tying flies for the last 20 years, what an addiction THAT is, I spend the whole winter in the basement, and I buy all kinds of fur, feathers, hooks, beads, tinsel, you name it I get it!!! Start off with a 5 wt outfit, you can throw anything with it, dry, nymph, streamers, even bass bugs, weight forward floating line, 7.5' - 9' leader, 4lb tippet. You can learn to cast in your chair at home by taking a 3' long stick, tie on a piece of yarn about 5' long, can move it back and forth, wait for the yarn to completely straighten out in front of you before starting your back cast. Not sure where you live, but would be willing to meet you at a local stream and give you some pointers, and flies!!! lol think about streamers, I catch a lot of fish on certain ones, and usually the bigger fish, streamers fish down stream and across, dry flies upstream, nymphs use a strike indicator, fish up stream, if the indicator stops, or goes upstream, fish on!!! Roll cast is what you'll be using most of the time as there are too many trees usually around the streams, check you tube for how to roll cast. Hope this helps, and hope you stick with it, I can usually out fish guys using bait, best thing to do is turn over some rocks see what kind of bugs are under them, and find a fly that sort of matches them, I have all kinds of bugs in vials that I use when I tie lol