Practice choosing flies that will yield good results on stream. Learn to tie the three fundamental knots required for fly fishing. Master making a drag free drift. Also master making a drift with movement for swimmer nymphs. When to utilize a dry fly instead of a nymph. When you should use a streamer fly and how to fish one effectively. Learn to read the water and identify probable places for trout to be found.

 Presentation -- will be presenting a dry fly or a nymph to the fish in such a way the trout perceives it to be food. And it takes or strikes the fly. For nymph angling that may require a limited "drift without drag" that presents your fly to the trout.

Nymphs such as stoneflies are almost helpless once they are caught up in the stream's flow. Helpless nymphs need to be dead drifted. Others are energetic swimmers. A nymph pattern representing any swimmer ought to be drifted with some motion of the leader to mimic a swimming movement. Figuring out which fly you ought to be using to imiatate which insect can mean the difference of success and failure.

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