Fly Fishing 101

Tight Lines Fly Fishing schools will give you the skills necessary to become a successful angler.  Fly Fishing can be an intimidating sport, but with our comprehensive school, we’ll make it much more user-friendly.   Our classes are held to a limited number of students in order to ensure a student to teacher ratio that provides plenty of one on one attention.  This one day school takes place over approximately 8 hours-handouts, lunch, and refreshments are provided.

 Topics covered:

Equipment

• Learn about rods, reels, and wading gear

• Put the equipment together and learn the importance of knot tying

Reading the water

• Learn to identify the different sport fish found in Wisconsin
• Introduction to holding water and how to recognize it through a slide presentation.

Entomology

• Learn what the fish eat and what flies represent this food.
• Hands-on opportunity to see examples of insects and other sources of food with preserved specimens as well as a slide show.

Fly Casting

• To conclude the day, students will have the opportunity to put a rod and reel in their hand and learn the most important ingredient of successful fly fishing.
• The casting portion is held outdoors whenever possible, and indoors during the winter and spring months.

The Fly Fishing 101 School is a one day event.  Classes will be held on the following dates:

• Feb. 28th 2010 9:00-4:00

• March. 21st 2010 9:00-4:00

Class Price-$140.00