Here’s a quick-and-dirty fly-casting video featuring Pete Kutzer of the Orvis Fly Fishing Schools. Previously, Pete demonstrated the Circle Spey cast, which is useful when the current is going from right to left (for a right-handed caster), so your rod is . . .
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Video: How to Cast Sinking Lines Easily
In the latest installment in the series about fly casting from the folks at Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Flechsig and Blane Chocklett offer helpful tips for casting sinking lines. The main problem is that, when you go to make your . . .
Read MoreVideo Tips: Advanced Casting Lessons from Carl McNeil
When New Zealand-based husband-and-wife team Carl McNeil and Jeanie Ackley released “Casts that Catch Fish” a dozen years ago, they brought gorgeous. . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: The “Hammer” Method of Fly Casting
One of the toughest things to explain to a new fly caster is how important the hard stop at the end of each stroke is. In this video from Trout Unlimited, my friend Kirk Deeter offers a tip taught to him by the late, great Charlie Meyers: When you are . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Cast Tight Loops
Here’s another installment in a series about fly casting from the folks at Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio. Here, Brian Flechsig talks about why you want your casting loop to be tight, and then he shows you how to do it. In the process, he . . .
Read MorePro Tip: Use the Roll-Cast Pickup for Efficient Upstream Dry-Fly Fishing
One problem that some anglers experience while fishing upstream is that they strip in so much line that they need four or five false-casts to get their line back out every time. But there is a better way. In this video, Joe Rotter from Red’s Fly Shop . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: There’s No “Right” Style of Fly Casting
Here’s an important video in Orvis casting instructor Pete Kutzer’s series on getting started in fly fishing. Pete discusses one of the more contentious subjects in fly casting: whether or not there’s a . . .
Read MoreVideo: 2 Fly-Casting Tips to Up Your Game
Here’s another good video in the ongoing series on fly casting from Brain Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio. Here, he offer two foundational tips: 1. always start and end the cast with your rod tip low; and 2. the timing of the cast is a . . .
Read MoreVideo Tuesday Tip: How to Teach Kids to Fly Cast
As the end of the school year approaches, we hope that many fly fishers are taking the time to teach a youngster to cast. One sure way to discourage a young would-be fly caster, though, is to get bogged . . .
Read MoreVideo Tip: How to Make a Belgian (Oval) Cast
The Belgian Cast, also known as the “oval cast,” achieves a few things: it keeps the line under constant tension, it keeps the flies away from the caster on the back cast, and it ensures that. . .
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