Now, suppose you’re going to catch a fish. Any fish. Would you rather catch it with fly gear or spinning gear? Right. I like spin fishing, too, but catching fish with fly gear is just more fun.

1), which allow the spool to spin multiple times for every crank of the reel handle. A fly reel, on the other hand, has a 1:1 gear ratio, meaning that for each turn of the handle the spool rotates one ...

Fly fishing has a unique elegance to it—almost ... It’s straightforward, versatile, and easy to learn. Conventional gear includes spinning, baitcasting, and spincast rods and reels, which ...

“It’s very interesting to fish streams that you have fished for years with fly tackle, but with spin tackle. It’s like fishing a different body of water, or rather, you fish it ...

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Fly reels used to play second fiddle to rods, at least in the fly-fishing world. Volumes have been written about ... All of these fly reels will keep spinning for decades with the proper care, and ...

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Fly fishing is a finesse style of angling ... Conventional fishing utilizes what is known as conventional fishing tackle -- spinning, baitcast, or spincast rods and reels. This is what the ...

Fly fishing, though, is somewhat gear-intensive: rod, flies, net, waders and boots (if the water’s too cold to get in) and more. But if packing your gear into a backcountry lake or stream is ...