I never had an opportunity to fish salt water until last June. My friend and I booked a guided trip off of Cape Cod and waded the flats for Stripers. Since my friend does not fly fish I decided to use a spinning outfit with him. We had a great day and brought in many fish that averaged around 30".

Here is my question, I am sure all of this has been covered before, but I have never opened this site until now. What fly rod, reel, etc. would be needed for this type of fishing? The wind is strong, but the site of all those fish cruising the flats makes me want to take a fly rod and increase the fun and the fight of those big ones. Fly? I understand that many use an imitation crab of some sort. I plan on going back this June but spending more time than the one day I put in last year.