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You can do anything with the help of the internet, and learning to speak Spanish is no exception. There are a number of programs currently in existence on the internet that are intended to assist those individuals whose lives are simply too busy to take a Spanish class in the mastery of this unique language.

These online resources can work for you as well, but there are a number of things you should look for before settling on a Spanish program. First and foremost, it must have some type of audio interface. You cannot learn to speak Spanish from a book. The accents and flow of the language are so different that even if you were to perfectly master the pronunciation of every vowel, syllable and letter combination in the Spanish language you still would not be able to speak with any type of fluency.

Take a moment to think back on the last time that you spoke with someone with a lisp or a very heavy accent. Even though they were speaking in English you probably had a very difficult time understanding them. The reason for this is that your ears are not used to relaying that type of information to the brain. Your ears are accustomed to hearing the language spoken in a particular manner with a particular accent, and in the absence of that particular way of speaking your brain cannot make any sense of what your ears are sending it.

The same can be said of learning to speak Spanish. The entire point of learning to speak a new language is to communicate with those people for whom this foreign language is a native tongue. That means that you must be able to understand them and, equally importantly, they must be able to understand you. If you do not speak with the proper accent and pronunciation you will not be understood, and therefore will have wasted the time you spent learning to speak the language.

The other item that is of particular importance when working with an online Spanish program is the quality of its visual aids. Yes, you are going to need pictures as well as words and sounds to learn. Why? Take a moment to consider how you learned English as a child. You learned the language from listening to the people around you, then applying the words to items around you. This means that you learned by a process known as "‘visual association”. Your mind learned to associate certain words with objects you saw around you. Without that association you are going to find yourself having to memorize countless vocabulary words without any foundation in which to base it.

If that doesn’t make sense, take a moment to think back to when you were first learning how to spell in grade school. You probably spent countless hours reviewing your word lists to learn how to spell the words the teacher required; however, you probably didn’t gain true mastery of these words until you became an adult and began seeing them in your reading material. The same is true of your vocabulary. Until you begin applying it to objects in your environment, words are just words and are not going to stick in your mind.

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Experienced fishermen carefully watch or "read" the water. They will fish the areas that have all the requirements the fish want and skip over the areas that don't have everything the fish need. So, what keeps fish in a certain part of the water? Fish like the rest of us have basic needs these are food, cover, and a resting place. Fish sometimes will look for warmer water in the spring when the water is uncomfortably cold and sometimes they will look for cooler water in the summer when water temperatures rise. When fish are looking for warmer water they will go to a shallow area of the stream where the sun has warmed up the temperature of the water a few degrees. In the hot summer time they will look for the mouth of a small feeder spring where the water is cooler. These are examples of fish seeking comfort. It is helpful when you are fly fishing if you will start thinking like a fish.

Since you are thinking like a fish, now let's find out what they will bite at. Forget the notion that one fly works better than the others. Some of the flies may work better in the summer than other flies because the flies you are using are around that time of the year. Trout may bite at hoppers during the month of August because hoppers are around that time of year. If you tried them in March, the fish won't bite them. The fish will only eat what they see on a regular basis.

One of the first steps to becoming a successful fly fisherman is not fishing. You need to observe what is going on around the area you want to fish. Watch how the fish are behaving, what they are doing. Look around for clues that any new hatches that have occurred. Check on and around the grass stems and weeds near the shoreline for clues of a recent hatch. Stonefly nymphs crawl out of the water to hatch into adults. The transformation will occur on a grass stem, weed, rock or anything close to the shoreline. Mayflies shed their outer covering after they hatch. This also happens on grass and weeds. Look around for clues. You might also look for any aquatic insects crawling around on nearby bushes. The bushes are a great hangout for aquatic insects that have recently hatched and are waiting until it is their time to lay eggs. When you see a lot of a certain kind of insect hanging around the bushes, you will know that to use that particular insect pattern imitating that insect will do well when fishing with them in the stream.

You can get other clues by watching the fish. If they are rising to the surface to catch flies, maybe you can see what kind of fly they are eating. If you don't see the fish rising, it maybe a nymph would work better. Nymphs are available to the fish all of the time.

Make a net of fine mesh stretched between two rods. This tool will also help you determine what is floating in the stream. Stretch the net across the water near the shore and then do the same thing in the middle of the stream. The results might differ some, but if you see a lot of the same type of insect in both nettings, you'll have a good idea of the type of bait you should be using.

Get a notebook to record your findings for future references. You might be surprised to see that the findings you found the first year match what you find on the second year for the same time of year and the same water spot. In a couple of years you will have a good database for you to use when selecting flies for upcoming fishing trip.

Fifteen minutes of your time spent looking for clues versus several hours of catching nothing during your next fishing trip. All it takes is a few minutes of watching without a fly rod in your hand.

Most of the fly fishermen started out as conventional fishermen with a spin cast rod rather than of a fly rod. So it is only natural that the things you learned in conventional fishing you would try in fly fishing and "hooking them" should be one of them. So if you haven't learned how to hook a fish with a fly rod, you need to start now.

Although a fly rod seems flexible, you should not stagger backward with the rod on the strike. The rod will probably break. Take things a little easier. A spinning line will stretch like a rubber band where as a fly line will not. Since you will be using a smaller and lighter wire hook than in spinning, they require almost no "hook setting" at all.