Where does the word "FLY" comes from when go trout fishing, they do not look like flies at all.?
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Actually, most "flies" are suppose to mimic a "hatch" of various different insect's. \n\n    The story goes, in the late 1800's, when the "sport" of fishing & "Fly-Fishing" began , they didn't have a wide variety of "material" to make there "flies" , (various animal hair & bird feather's, colored yarn),  from , so some outdoor newspaper/magazine journelist ,(can't think of his name) , told his reader's that the "darkest" hackle was the best material for most  fishing situation's, (apparently, he had a "banner" day fishing for trout with an ugly "black" "fly"). His way of "thinking" got around & the nickname "Fly-Fishing" stuck!\n\n\n(Then again, I could of made all that up!)\n\n LOL (I honestly think it was Royalty in England who quoted the name ,"fly-fishing".)\n\nDoes it matter that much? I just wish I was out there right now "catching" them & not "talkin" bout it! lol
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FISHING, also called ANGLING, is the sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Like hunting, fishing originated as a means of providing food for survival.\n\nFishing as a sport, however, is of considerable antiquity. An Egyptian angling scene of about 2000 BC shows figures fishing with rod and line and with nets. A Chinese account of about the 4th century BC refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook made from a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References to fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish writings.\n\nToday, fishing, often called sport fishing to distinguish it from commercial fishing, is, despite the growth of towns and the increase of pollution in many sources, one of man's principal relaxations and is, in many countries, the most popular participant sport.\n\nThe problems of the modern angler are still those of his ancestor: where to find fish, how to approach them, and what sort of bait to use. The angler must understand wind and weather. Fishing remains what it has always been, a problem in applied natural history.\n\nThe history of angling is in large part the history of tackle, as the equipment for fishing is called. One of man's earliest tools was the predecessor of the fishhook, a gorge: a piece of wood, bone, or stone an inch or so in length, pointed at both ends and secured off-center to the line. The gorge was covered with some kind of bait. When a fish swallowed the gorge, a pull on the line wedged it across the gullet of the fish, which could then be pulled in.\n\nWith the coming of the use of metals, a hook was one of the first tools made. This was attached to a handline of animal or vegetable material, a method that is efficient only when used from a boat. The practice of attaching the line in turn to a rod, at first probably a stick or tree branch, made it possible to fish from the bank or shore and even to reach over vegetation bordering the water.\n\nFor thousands of years, the fishing rod remained short, not more than a few feet in length. The earliest reference to a longer, jointed rod is from Roman times, about the 4th century AD. At that time also, Aelian wrote of Macedonians catching trout on artificial flies and described how each fly was dressed (made). The rod they used was only 6 feet (1.8 metres) long and the line the same length, so that the method used was probably dapping, gently laying the bait on the surface of the water.
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you will need a fishing license.  And like the other guy said, usually if you are after something like trout, you will need to buy a permit for that above and beyond the regular license
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No, it was not. The etymology of butterfly is very straightforward:OE buttor-fleoge, with the first part of the compound meaning exactly what it means today and going back as far as Greek 'boutoron', and the second common Germanic 'fleogan' (to fly), OE 'flyge' or 'fleoge', modern German 'Fliege', all of them meaning 'the fly'. The alleged spoonerism is a myth.
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They are "cold blooded."  Unlike warm blooded mammals like humans, flies and other insects do not produce their own heat.   They need to get heat from outside sources, like the sun or the air.  When it's cold, they move slower because their whole physiology has slowed down.
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They are all trout-flies. Not particularly well-known, but trout-flies none the less.They were common to western trout streams in the 40'& 50's.
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One of the bailiffs at a mid-Kent syndicate regularly fishes for pike using big flies, he uses a light(15 - 20lb)wire trace which casts really well, you shouldn't not use a wire trace really, as the pike will bite through everything else. With that, just use a normal fly line as you would trout fishing, with a 6 -7 foot lenght of mono between the fly line and the trace wire. Use the larger flies that are used for salmon, as well as the proper ones developed for the pike. Good luck
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You can try looking at www.texasfishinghome.com and see if that website has any information about fly fishing.
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It discourages the riff-raff element. I've already been put off coarse fishing because of the amount of idiots/@rseholes on the banks these days, especially the carpers. I've now taken up fly fishing and have to say that everyone I've met so far have been absolute gentlemen. If you have a genuine passion for it you'll pay the money. If it costs 50p all day then all sorts will be turning up.\nWhy do some shop at Lidl and some at Marks & Spencer?
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it would just have a longer name. its name would be "the bug formerly known as Fly"
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Sure... smaller streams will be easier.  Places where there are planters are easier.  Wild fish are tougher, but more attractive.  Trout need 3 things... Oxygene, Cover and food.  They will be holding in water that can provide them these things... generally in at least a foot of water, usually more.  Fish will be found on seams, where a faster current meets a slower current.  The slower current means the fish doesn't have to work as hard, and the faster current brings more food by.\n\nTrout need cooler water... they won't survive in water in the mid 70's.\n\nTrout are normally at or near the bottom of the stream bed, so you need to get whatever you are fishing with near the bottom.  You'll snag up, but that's where the fish are.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines fly as something attached by the edge as a fly is. Its first meaning is given in British army ordnances dated from 1844.
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It would certainly make more sense if it said NEVER met a fish he did not like, but MET a fish he did not like is just plain, well, a head scratcher. Who met a fish he did not like . . . .I doubt a fish ate him, maybe he was deep sea fishing and slipped pulling in a huge marlin . . . or maybe the tombstone people made a typo and it is after all, never met a fish he did not like. Yeah, I like that one! Hey, let me know if you find out!!!!
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From French to English it means keep fishing
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Maggots, worms are good as the trout is very predatory. Also they will take bread flake, infact they love it. Its cheap and can be used with ease. A top bait, and it works at night, they can really smell it. For me, it would be bread then maggots then worms TIGHT LINES
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fav is trout.but i like all kinds of fish.good for the brain
800551
most likely from the dead "meese" becaue flies come from maggots, and flies can seem to just grow from dead stuff....