5 REASONS TO TRY THE FLY

I like to extoll the virtues of saltwater flyfishing; I don’t apologise for that, and honestly, I’m really not biased either. My garage has its fair share of beachcasters, uptiders, plugging rods, spinning gear, float fishing set-ups and more latterly, HRF and LRF kit too. It’s all good, it all catches plenty of fish, and I will employ whatever method will give me the best enjoyment for the venue I’m fishing, or the species I’m after. It’s just that, well, given the choice, and when conditions allow, I’ll always reach for my trusty saltwater fly gear, and for five good reasons.

1 TRAVEL LIGHT

I guess the majority of us have spent more hours than we’d like to count yomping across the sand and shingle expanses of our local shores, often laden like a packhorse with beach gear, knees and various other joints creaking, groaning and wondering what on earth they’d done to deserve such abuse. Then there’s those summer months when the opportunity arises to go fishing on the rocks. The full kit is not an option, so you scale it all back and there’s