Geartalk

Skills

Fishing With Your Feet

Proper positioning–fishing with your feet–is an important part of skillful fly presentation.

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Some Fly Casting Mistakes and Solutions

In a mechanically sound casting stroke, the elbow moves up on the backcast and down on the forward cast.

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An Observation on Observation

One of the acute differences I see between professional anglers and amateurs is in their respective approaches and entry to water they’re about to fish.

Bobber and fishing line hanging from a tree over a river.

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Technical Tubing

Let’s be honest. When you’re nymph fishing with a bobber all you’re really doing is hanging onto the water tube handles.

A man casting a fly rod on a mountain lake in the summer.

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A Distance Casting Tip

An essential requirement for distance casting is that maximum acceleration of the rod occur at the end of the casting stroke.

Man casting into the wind on a high alpine lake.

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Casting Into The Wind

Wind is a fact of life in the West. If you’re going to fish out here, at some point you’ll be doing it in the wind.

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Make Friends with the Wind

Your backcast is where you load the power in the rod, and a stiff breeze will help straighten the line behind you.

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Mastering The Double Haul

Mastering the double haul allows anglers to combat wind, cast larger and heavier flies, improve accuracy with less effort and reduce strain on their casting arm.