Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly Fishing Outing

1. Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly
Fishing Outing
By: William Mark Heiden

2. Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly Fishing Outing
William Mark Heiden has worked as a financial services provider for more than two decades,
including a 5-year tenure as managing director of investments at a major firm in Newport Beach,
California. An avid fly fishermen, William Mark Heiden is a founder of River Ratus Americanus, a
fly fishing, horse riding, and outdoors group that has traveled the world.

3. Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly Fishing Outing
When it comes to optimizing a fly fishing expedition, participants must take a number of factors into
account. One of the simplest yet most important decisions to be made involves what time of day a
fly fishing excursion should begin. Of course, weather, location, time of year, species of target fish,
and several other factors should influence this decision. That said, there are a few basic facts that
can be considered.

4. Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly Fishing Outing
For starters, early morning outings and evening sessions are better suited to the warm, summer
months. Many species of fish are more active during these times, as the sun is not as hot and prey
insects such as mosquitoes come out to feed. In the spring and fall, meanwhile, dusk is preferable,
as the water has been heated up over the course of the day, generating increased fish activity.

5. Basic Tips for Scheduling Your Fly Fishing Outing
Fishing that takes place near a beach or ocean should be based around daily tidal charts, as fish
move in much greater numbers during tidal shifts. Lastly, the development of cold fronts and heavy
rainfall should dictate how anglers plan their fishing days, as the odds of landing a catch fall
dramatically with the temperature, or in the event of a storm.