1. The Thank You School Bus Drivers poem (below) is the cover of a FABULOUS Thank You Book that will be dropped off for the bus drivers to keep in their meeting room.
Attach the fly reel to the fly rod using only the butt section of the rod if it is two pieces or more. Take the tag end of the backing and run it through the rod guides and attach it to the reel spool or arbor with the appropriately named arbor knot. To do this, first make a basic overhand knot around the line.
Automatic Fly Reel. The third type of fly reel retrieve system, the automatic fly reel retrieve, does just what the name suggests. The reel retrieves all fly line without the angler turning the spool at all. The fly reel, instead of having a spool which is then turned by a handle, instead has a trigger.When released, the trigger allows the fly line to zip back into the reel. This isn't needed, or actually wanted, when fly fishing for most freshwater fish-particularly when fishing on rivers. Get a single retrieve fly reel (the most common). 2  Don't get an automatic or multiplying retrieve, which are nice for saltwater fishing but not for freshwater fly fishing. 3  Make sure, repeat, make sure that you match up the fly line weight with the fly reel weight.