Firstly cut a Hazel switch to 9ft in length, with tapering diameter from 1" at the butt end to 1/4" at the tip, and allow to season for 3 weeks. This allows you time to prepare the remainder of your kit.
Leave early one morning, when the grass is damp with spring dew, and with deft movements remove with the use of your penknife enough lengths of horse tail hair as will be required to spin your line, which should taper from 18 strands at its thickest to 3 at the tip (though i have it on good authority from a gentleman of the fly, that he can land a trout of fair size on a single strand taken from a certain Bay Cob not far from here). When you have your line long enough to cast "fair and far off" (12-15ft at most) then whip to the tip of the above mentioned switch in such a manner as to be sure of its tenacity.
We now come to the matter of hooks. Such is the quality of your beloved's darning needles that little else need be done than to sweet talk her into aquiring one of the same, and with gentle persuasion curl the point to form a jugged lip as narrow as you see fit for the size of your quarry's mouth. A simple blood (otherwise known as a fishermans knot) will suffice to finish the working part of your tackle.
This I dare say is the minimum needed in order to begin your life of angling, but mention of one other requisite may be of interest to the novice, namely the quill. Though this is a fairly recent introduction, and seen by some as unnessesary if not downright unsporting, for those who are to fish deep with worm or maggot they are without a doubt an innovation to be applauded.
At there simplest form a primary taken from goose and stripped of fletch, can be attached with a light whip of linen thread top and bottom, at such depth as you require in order to "be among" your quarry.
With this your tackle is complete, and it but remains for you to decide on your bait, be it worm, maggot, paste or bread, and to wish you "tight lines" with a fair wind at your back and the sun in your face.
So come with me now as we take to the bank and peruse the vista that is to be the course of our game.