Hi everyone, thanks to everyone for a grate forum. This place is the Wikipedia to fly fishing for sure.

So I'm new to the fly fishing world, fished for many years up in llyn padarn up north Wales which is a large lake full of trout, arctic char, eels and some twigs and sheep, getting kinda boring chucking a swim feeder in to the horizon as its not much of a challange but is very effective at catching lots of fish.

So I have decided to venture out from the lake and head to the rivers of gwyrfai.
What an expensive experiance it is, could spend less but we all know you get what you pay for and I like things to last but don't want to fork out too much cash.

So far, I am rounding up a decent first outfit for hopefully an all in one sort of set up

Greys xf2 streamflex plus 9ft6 #5
Leeda 5/6fly reel, with a rubbish airflo line to chuck about in the field.
Vision koma 5/6 reel
Greys grxi wf5f
Backing
1 Richard Whitley box of 230 assorted flies from fleebay which is alright
Plier things for hook removal
Flurocarbon
Preacher
Blade
Net
Flask

So I know I'm missing good boots and some waders and a jacket and possibly a fly vest but think a waterproof wading jacket looks better. I can't think of what I else I would need to get up and going, I'm organising some casting lessons at a fishery down Cardiff so that's sorted,

Any one else think of something Else i am missing?? Cheers guys,

co polymer tapered leader, and co polymer Tippet for the dry fly

Cheers
Spencer

Floatant , Gink very good ,

Sunglasses, hat, small first aid kit (pocket size) & super glue. Good for mending braided loops & deep cuts.

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Like that.

Jim

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yes sunglasses a must

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I wasnt sure of that Jim , Preacher did he mean a priest?


You'd need a preacher with my casting



Cheers
Spencer

Is the Airflow trout polyleader alright, I'm presuming For a beginner 5ft? With maybe a 4ft tippet at say 4-5lb braking strain direct to a fly,

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Not laughed so hard in weeks yeas a priest lol, got a job interview Friday, scrambling my brains.

Sunglasses hat ouch my wallet is emtying right before my eyes thanks guys did not think off all that.

If I may say, you have a very nice outfit there

I'd agree, some copolymer tippet and tapered leaders for dry flies.

Is the polyleader floating? Is it clear?

Not bought leaders yet, going slightly off topic but just found a braided loop in my binned fly line box, I presume this is fixed to the fly line for easy conection to the leader? Will YouTube

Setup is courtesy off all the good reviews here, got a cracking rod from stocksflyfishery off eBay at a grate price from the misses for Xmas

Do sunglasses have to be expensive? Seen some for like 15quid. Midge repellant is a no no is this true? Does it disintegrate a fly line? I hate them things