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Skills

Toward Better Casting

Good mechanics set us directly on the path toward complete and total control of our line, leader and fly.

Skills

Observations on the Double Haul

Employed best, a double haul is always additive to the casting experience.

Skills

Why Fly Presentation Matters

Most of the time, but not always, trout only eat things that look natural to them.

Cutthroat trout feeding near the surface in a clear river or lake.

Skills

Timing Is Everything on Dry-Fly Presentations

Understanding the feeding rhythm of fish is critical to dry-fly fishing success.

Skills

What Spooks Trout?

Every additional false cast diminishes your ability to hookup with a fish.

Skills

Throw a Drink in My Face

One of the best tips ever written for the basic backcast.

Man casting on a forest lake in the summer.

Skills

All You Really Need to Know About the Double Haul

Being able to “double haul” as you cast a fly rod is an important key to adding distance to your cast.

Skills

The Cast: Don’t Get Cocky

The number-one mistake most novice fly casters make is going back too far on the backcast.

Skills

“10 and 2” Is Too Little, Too Late

Most anglers achieve the ten o’clock-two o’clock fly casting mechanics if they’re thinking “10 and 1”.

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Geartalk

Toward Better Casting

Observations on the Double Haul

Why Fly Presentation Matters

Timing Is Everything on Dry-Fly Presentations

What Spooks Trout?

Throw a Drink in My Face

All You Really Need to Know About the Double Haul

The Cast: Don’t Get Cocky

“10 and 2” Is Too Little, Too Late

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