About Fly Fishing Equipment

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Ok, so we'll start off first with the equipment. This obviously is a fly rod. There's several parts to it. We've got the rod. We've got the reel. We've got the fly line itself and we've got the leader. There's also another component you can't see. It's called the backing that's on the reel before you put the fly line on it. That's going to be the first part of it. Then, the end of it, of course, where I've got this little piece of yarn tied on it to represent a fly, is our leader, and that's where you would have your fly attached and that's what's going to hook the fish. All these parts go together. You hear people talk about a balance outfit. That just means you've got a five weight rod and a five weight line and a leader that's going to match the size of flies you're going to cast with. And all that information is usually on the rod. You can see here, we've got the length of the rod, the weight of the rod, and then we'll have something most times, on the reel, that will tell you that that line is going to match the rod. So, we've got a five weight rod and you can see there's a five weight line. That little designation, weight forward is the type of line and five is the weight of the line. The weight is the most important part. You just want to make sure you have a five weight line for a five weight rod. Everything else is pretty variable.

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