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On Apr 25, 9:00 pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
Where do you live, Minasizer? What kind of waters are you fishing?
Names of the streams? What rod weight are you using and what weight
fly line? What is a "heavy line"? Please don't tell us you are using
a 10 weight line on a 5 weight rod. d;o) Learn how to fly fish
before you tie your own leaders. Chances are you will like a
commercial leader/tippet set up. Match the fly to the leader. I
doubt you will be catching any 2 pound trout for awhile, so a 2 pound
leader/tippet should be ok. BTW, you should be able to land a 4 pound
trout on a 2 pound leader.

I live in Philadelphia PA, I fish the Wisahickon Creek and sometimes I
travel to Norristown and fish Stony Creek. The Wisahickon ranges from
about 1 to 6 feet in deep where I am fishing. I fish where there is
moving water. Stony creek is about 1 to 4 feet deep slower moving
than the the Wisahickon. My rod weight is 5 to 6 wt. I am use to a
spinner I use a 6lb test on that usually with a rooster tail. I am
using 333 as my fly line not to sure what it rated for I bought a
combo package at Dicks Sporting Goods. Is there a chart to match up
flies with leaders? I am very good at tieing knots and already have
fishing line from various sizes and test.

You already know more about fly fishing than those whose primary interest is
in finding out where you fish. You'll do well.

Don't worry about matching flies to leaders. You'll figure out very quickly
what works and what doesn't.

Your fly line is rated for the rod you bought it with.....or the folks at
Dick's are idiots.....um, well, o.k., they're idiots either way. It doesn't
matter.

Go out and fish. You will almost certainly catch very few fish at first.
It doesn't matter so long as you stick with it and think. You'll
improve....slowly....until, suddenly, one day everything works and you catch
a whole bunch of fish. This will be due almost entirely to the fact that
fish are sometimes driven by mysterious forces to engage in what would once
have been mass suicide (in the days before imposed creel limits), but it
won't stop you from becoming an instant expert and coming here to share your
hard-won knowledge with newbies and outdated experts.

Change your tippet frequently.

Wolfgang
oh, and being good at tying knots puts you WAY ahead of most beginners.