ok, i am getting back into flyfishing. picked up a SW combo for the upcoming season. i used to target smallies in FW, but have not even thrown a fly other than teasers in several years. what are some good basic flies to start off with. i fish the south shore of RI mostly. thanks for any help!

Clousers,Deceivers,Half/Half and Hollow Fleyes

T. lapinski. thoes are good flys. BUT ill give you something real easy to tie an will catch everything in the water.these are GREAT flys, I always keep them on hand, an teach them at tyin class for new guys to use. you WILL catch fish w/ them

hook long shank
tail kristal flash
body deer hair w/ lava lace wraps
thats it , now go catch some fish.
GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN:happy:

When you fly fish continue to use droppers like you have been with surfcasting. A Rays fly is the perfect imitation for silversides no matter what the size. Olive over white clousers can imitate shrimp, silversides, mummies and other wider baitfish. Blue over white decievers are good to imitate mullet. Long flatwings like steehead has been posting are good at day or night and are really easy to cast. After using a 12-14" flatwing I'll never go back to the bulky synthetics. The flatwings are very life like in the water and can be fished really slow and ride high in watercolumn. If I had one style of fly to use it would definitly be a flatwing.

For colors you cant go wrong with all white, black or yellow. This year I was kickin myself for never bringing a fly rod to RI because the weather was so mild and all those bass 32-37" that were around and in really close... of course next year will be 20mph wind in the face every time I do bring the fly rod. Try using some big flatwings on the CT river during the spring.

T/L ==taken up s/w f/f =Yep

You & me [both} then hook up with Fww=seeing he figures I don,t know D/s about the long rod
-----and we,ll go BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFishin:smash:

I don't get it, how ya going to throw 3oz with that set up.

When I blow them up ========I,ll snag them with the fly :D

:laughs:

thanks for the tips. clammer, lead me to the bluefish! i bet they would be fun on a sissy rod! 3 ounces, think i can throw that with a 12 weight?!?!?! :D

I don,t know if he still has the RI record for Bluefish from shore //but at the time I was fishing with this gentleman [NUT}he must have gone thru a ton of poppers & leaders on this Quest ,never mine the money he cost us screwing around with them when we were suppose to bass fishing/////////////:confused: :smash:

Clammer, where the pic of that grass shrimp?

How is you boat doing,hope this ice didn't break har up?