Getting started – saltwater flies

 


See also:

  1. Getting started - dry trout flies
  2. Getting started - wet trout flies
  3. Getting started - bass and native fish flies
  4. Getting started - the gear

Salt water flies are flies that have been designed specifically for use in salt water to catch fish that live full time or part of their life cycle in salt water environments.

Wet flies.

By far the majority of salt water flies have been designed to be fished sub surface.

Blue water flies

Estuary flies

Specifically designed for use in estuarine environments these are just a very small random sample of flies specifically designed to be fish in river mouths, saline lakes and lagoons, sand flats and other estuary type environments.

Salt water dry flies

Designed to be fished on the surface

There are much fewer flies designed to be fished on the surface in salt water environment and these are just a couple of the key ones.