Online fly casting lessons
I don't know about you, but I find I have to work on my fly casting constantly to help it improve. I didn't have lessons when I started and that's a pity because it meant I got in to some bad habits which still return from time to time.
On the other hand it has meant that I have had all kinds of advice from some of the best casters in the business. If you are just about to embark on fly fishing it might be best to get some tuition.
Even if you have been fishing a while it's worth checking out the experts from time to time to pick up a few refinements. If you can't afford lessons and don't have an experienced friend to help you you could do a lot worse than building your cast from this series of videos.
The most important thing on the cast is to take note of the forward and backward stops. You need to get both of them right. It took me a long time to build in the forward stop and even now I sometimes forget it when salmon casting. The point is made here in Eoin Fairgrieve's site, looking in this case at the Spey cast.
One problem of, course, in concentrating on your cast is that you can be focusing so much on doing long, perfect casts that you forget to fish. If you want to cover the fish that might be nearest to you it's important to start with short casts, sometimes standing well back from the bank.
It's a bloke thing, I suppose, to wade in as far as you dare, then launch great shooting casts across the river. Why? Because you can. You see this all the time in salmon fishing, less so among chalk stream fishers, stalking individual trout by sight.
If a salmon river is swollen after heavy rain, the likelihood is that the fish will be lying quite close in anyway. There will be no need for wading or for long casts. Yes, we all want to cast properly but first we have to think about the fish.
On the other hand it has meant that I have had all kinds of advice from some of the best casters in the business. If you are just about to embark on fly fishing it might be best to get some tuition.
Even if you have been fishing a while it's worth checking out the experts from time to time to pick up a few refinements. If you can't afford lessons and don't have an experienced friend to help you you could do a lot worse than building your cast from this series of videos.
The most important thing on the cast is to take note of the forward and backward stops. You need to get both of them right. It took me a long time to build in the forward stop and even now I sometimes forget it when salmon casting. The point is made here in Eoin Fairgrieve's site, looking in this case at the Spey cast.
One problem of, course, in concentrating on your cast is that you can be focusing so much on doing long, perfect casts that you forget to fish. If you want to cover the fish that might be nearest to you it's important to start with short casts, sometimes standing well back from the bank.
It's a bloke thing, I suppose, to wade in as far as you dare, then launch great shooting casts across the river. Why? Because you can. You see this all the time in salmon fishing, less so among chalk stream fishers, stalking individual trout by sight.
If a salmon river is swollen after heavy rain, the likelihood is that the fish will be lying quite close in anyway. There will be no need for wading or for long casts. Yes, we all want to cast properly but first we have to think about the fish.
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