Hi-de-hi. First time on here so please be patient. I am 68years old and retired.
A few weeks ago while visiting my daughter in Hampshire my son in law took
me fishing at the local trout lakes.I did catch one blue at 2ib 8oz but in the main
hooked mostly thistles.clumps of grass and umpteen patches of reeds.Despite
this I had a great day and wished I had been going fly fishing for the past 40
years.

I have now bought some gear and after some casting practice am confident of
hitting the water. Living on the North East coast and within easy reach of Northumbria Water fisheries I am hoping to get at least one days fishing before the season ends on 30 November.probably at Grassholme in Teesdale.

I have been reading with interest the comments on these forums regarding
the pitfalls of cheap line. My current problem is understanding what appear
to be endless lists of flies. Is there any easy means of deciding what is a dry
fly?,what is a wet fly and which ones are nymphs.

Any way enough from me.Cheers.

Hi and welcome to the forum ,
hope you enjoy the fun,

Hi and welcome i am a newbie as well you will get loads of great advice on this forum.
As for the flies look at the fulling mill website and download and copy of their different flies.
helped me.
Fulling Mill Ltd

Welcome to the Forum.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Welcome to the forum.

As for your question re: flies Have a look at the Fly Tying Step by step section on this forums. they are classified by type dry, wet, lure etc and should help you no end in starting to learn the patterns.

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying...ing-lists.html

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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine,
No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook,
With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray,
And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey

Many thanks.will do.Geoff

Hi wickerman, welcome to the forums.

Hi wickerman,
regarding grassholme res. as ya probally know grassholme is a
mixed bait fishery,not been up there for a few years but usually found the fish deep probally feeding on the bait that goes in,hurry res. is 5-10 mins up
the road and is fly only( might be worth looking into)
Flies that work well up there are.....

kate mclaren
bibio
soldier palmer,etc (wet flys)

and lures ......dawsons olive
black fritz
orange fritz


hope this helps and good luck


Blue

Thanks Blue for the tips.Have had a look at Hurry and it looks interesting.Geoff.

Welcome Wikerman ,Im sure you will get some great help from the res anglers here .enjoy the retirement .