Tag Archives: fly casting

Are you a creeper?

Do you have a sloppy, underpowered forward cast? It may be due to moving your casting hand forward before the back cast is finished. Some call this casting error creep. So, how do you get rid of the creep and … Continue reading

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Fishing a fly on the swing presentation

Discussed in this podcast: How to make a trout stream better. Is a 7-wt rod a good choice for trout fishing? Information sources on invasive sources. Finding bass on southern rivers. Fishing a fly on the swing.

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Fly Casting – how to handle windy conditions

Having trouble casting in the wind? This video has good tips.

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Brief history of fly fishing and some casting tips

Improve accuracy. Too much false casting. Lining fish. Fishing pressured water. Podcast here.

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Fly Casting – the roll cast

Here’s a little more information about the rollcast.

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Fly Casting – Part 4

This lesson will teach the most basic of casts and certainly the one most needed, like when you have no room to backcast, and used by fly fishers – there’s the roll cast.

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Fly Casting – Part 3

In lesson 3, we’ll put together what we learned in the previous two lessons to start stretching out our casts via the false cast.

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Fly casting – Part 2

Lesson 2 – what to do with your line hand and how to shoot line.

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Fly casting – Part 1

Lesson 1 – learning the basic stroke.

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Fly casting in the wind

This video has lots of good tips for fly casting in windy conditions.

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