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Fly fishing question?

I am knew at fly fishing i live in florida. Do you know any good fly fishing technique’s or any good flys that I should use for largemouth bass.
Thank you in advance

Before i can recommend any flies you need to do the following when you reach the lake-it will save a lot of wasted time.

1. You need to find where the bass are feeding in the water-on the surface? just subsurface, deep almost on the bottom.

2. There are various flies designed to fish at these different levels in the water also you FLY LINE is VITAL- a WF(weight forward) floater will work fine, in about a 6-7wt depending on your rods rating.

3. Using a weighted fly like a woolly bugger will get down deep to the low lying fish- a tungsten head version will really make it sink.

4. Use a ready tied knotless tapered leader in about 9ft to help with your presentation and stop tangles. Depending on the fish and the size of flies, snags etc a 2-3X will work fine.

5. Great flies to take would be poppers- i dont like them myself as it seems to defeat the purpose of fly fishing, BUT they do catch bass- white and chartreuse works well. Woolly buggers are excellent too dark colors like green and black are great on overcast days, gold head versions add a good amount of flash.

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