Getting started isn't very difficult. An eight foot five or six weight rod with a weight forward line to match, a reel big enough to hold the line and a little backing, and a leader that tapers from your line tip diameter and aproximate stiffness down to the size that's appropriate to your fly does the job. Head for a casting or fly caster's club, look at a video, or watch the pros.
Flies aren't much -- a selection of half dozen or so does the job. You might try www.finefishing.com for affordable flies and a no-questions money back guarantee. For most 4 size 14 Adams, 4 size 10 muddlers and 4 wooly buggers gets the job done where you fish mostly slower waters. Substitute Elk Hair Caddis for the Adams is your streams run to rocks and rapids.
Saltwater types can go for just about any kind of streamer and specialized flies that match tiny sand crabs, or seaworms and should, like bass fishers, move up to a seven or eight weight rod and perhaps 100 yards of backing Saltwater anglers can try bass bugs and long streamers made out of strips of skin and other oddments.
Just about any area has a fly-fishing club. Check with your local fly shop or, if you can't find one of the latter, drop me an email at bignami@finefishing.com and I'll turn something up.
Matching the hatch is nice, but you need to know the only thing worse than not having a match is having only one fly. It's guaranteed that you'll lose that fly just before the Moby Dick of trout makes an an appearance.
Add some Gink or whatever else to float your dry flies and a few small split shot to sink your wet flies and all you need is a strike indicator -- it's really a bobber, but that's not PC -- to help see deep takes. A landing net, expecially a knotless number lets you release fish withouth handling them too much, or insures fish in the net for dinner.
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