08-30-2006, 10:51 PM
yes you will want a seperate line for Salt water. Fly lines for trout fishing tend to be too limp in the hot weather on the ocean - for one. Many warm water fish and ocean fish are not sensitive to fly line hitting the water so they tend to have heavier front sections.
The exceptions would be bone fish or tarpon and your 5-6 weight rod you will quickly find to be inadequate. It may be inadequate for peacock bass and red fish that you have there.
Beyond that I don't know
Check your library - it probably has several fly fishing books.
I would suggest something by Lefty Kreh. or something Flip Pallot or Bob Clouser or Bob Popovic, or Jim Teeny or Dan Blanton.
An excellent book for a getting loads of basic information about fly fishing both fresh and salt water would be his book
"Presenting the fly" (Lefty Kreh) - a good primer on rods, reels, lines, tippets, clothing, tacktics, rigging, .............
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The exceptions would be bone fish or tarpon and your 5-6 weight rod you will quickly find to be inadequate. It may be inadequate for peacock bass and red fish that you have there.
Beyond that I don't know
Check your library - it probably has several fly fishing books.
I would suggest something by Lefty Kreh. or something Flip Pallot or Bob Clouser or Bob Popovic, or Jim Teeny or Dan Blanton.
An excellent book for a getting loads of basic information about fly fishing both fresh and salt water would be his book
"Presenting the fly" (Lefty Kreh) - a good primer on rods, reels, lines, tippets, clothing, tacktics, rigging, .............
--- I corrected my spelling of names----
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