Hi Guys, I want to take up fly fishing for course fish and really need your advice the last time I owned a fly rod was 28 years ago when I was 14 I caught a few trout with it and gave up, I have been course fishing all my life and have access to the river Tees and Leven.

But what I need to know is what rod, reel, line, backing, leaders and flies do I need??? or do you reccomend for Chub, Dace and Perch, 2 piece rod or 3 piece? floating line or sinking?? etc etc etc

Any advice would be really helpfull thanks in advance guys

Well for a start its COARSE fish not course ,,, anyway 2 or three pce hardly matters.. I used to fish the leven at great ayton and I reckon an 8ft 4 or 5 wt would be about right.... but for the tees as well maybe a 9ft. Two lovely rivers which stretches are you fishing?

Andy



Fly fishing North Yorkshire

Hi Andrew

Welcome to the forum great place,great info and great guys !

My advice would be firstly to scroll back through the pages in this section theres tons of great advice !

Personally the only coarse species ive caught on the fly are pike, perch and roach, the later nearly drove me mad !

Re rods, lines ........? obviously you will need a different set up for pike compared to say roach. You can see from my rod list i favour 9ft rods and line weights to suit quarry.

Best of luck keep us posted with your progress

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Snowbee Geo 3/4 reel

Hi Andy, yes of course its coarse fishing, must stop using forums and Carlsberg Export in cans at the same time anyway I'm in Thornaby AA so access to the association waters, Sockburn, Dinsdale, Piercebridge etc etc and Croft with Thornaby