Sunday 16 September 2007

The Growing Trend: Fly Fishing for Coarse Fish


In recent years there has been a growing advance in the fly fishing camp, to use their equipment to catch course fish. Of course, this has been happening unintentionally ever since fly fishing has existed, but it is only recently that fly fishermen have actually targeted coarse fish.

One side of this new method, is to use fry imitations to catch pike. Indeed there have been whole books dedicated to this method. It is also possible to use, what I can only describe as Christmas decorations which seem to prove effective.

Another element of fly fishing is to fly fish for carp. Interestingly I read in a recent fishing magazine that the notorious booby fly seems to be quite suited to this. However, there is of course the moral obligations of fishing with a fly that seems oddly similar to a floating expanded pellet!

Certainly this method of fishing can prove a nice alternative to normal fly fishing for trout, or even coarse fishing.