Fly Fishing Tackle
Fly fishing tackle is equipment used by, and often specialised for use by fly anglers. Fly fishing tackle includes fly lines designed for easy casting, specialised fly reels designed to hold a fly line and supply drag if required for landing heavy or fast fish, specialised fly rods designed to cast fly lines and artificial flies, terminal tackle including artificial flies, and other accessories including fly boxes used to store and carry artificial flies.
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Famous quotes containing the words fly fishing, fly, fishing and/or tackle:
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
—Tom Brokaw (b. 1940)
“Love wing’d my Hopes and taught me how to fly”
—Unknown. Love Winged My Hopes and Taught Me How to Fly (l. 1)
“A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck
And on the king my father’s death before him.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.”
—Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)