For brown trout, a seven-foot rod is useful, using small dry flies on a No. 16 hook.
Sea trout are especially fished for at night using wet flies.
They used wet flies, and trailed them about in rough water.
Fly fishermen use artificial flies as a lure and use lighter rods and lines.
They can also be caught using small lures or flies.
The river is for fly fishing only using either dry flies or nymph imitative patterns.
Rainbow trout up to 15 inches are angled by small stream tactics using dry flies.
Using artificial flies, the hook only catches the lip, and the fish can be released.
One tends to use larger flies, whether dry or wet, and shorter heavier leaders when fishing at night.
Steelhead often were caught using large wet flies with 2x tippet during the early 1970s.