Fly Casting

Mike shows you the cause of wind knots and how to stop them from forming. Mike Mouradian is a fly fishing instructor at the Trout Unlimited Fly Fishing School (TUFFS.org) and runs classes for kids in 3rd grade up to Senior citizens. He has taught hundreds of people how to fly fish and how to correct their own mistakes.

In this Tips and Tactics episode, Diamondback Fly Rods head rod designer Joe Goodspeed breaks down how to match fly lines and leaders to your rod, casting style, and fishing situations.

In this final installment of how to reduce drag, Tom adds more tips to help anglers out to try to eliminate the dreaded drag.

An upstream mend — a firm lift and flip of the line above the indicator or fly — counteracts the pull of the faster current between you and the fly, buying time for a natural drift. Mending upstream slows your fly's drift and extends a drag-free presentation — making it the right choice when fast water between you and the fly is pulling your line...

photo by Josef Three Spey casts—the Double Spey, Snap-T, and Perry Poke—will effectively cover ninety percent of the water you'll encounter on winter steelhead rivers. These foundation casts handle downstream wind, upstream wind, and heavy sink-tip situations respectively, giving you a safe, reliable answer to virtually any condition from British...

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the world with as much angling experience as Joe Humphreys, and in this video from The New Fly Fisher, he shares one of his favorite small-stream tactics, the long-distance bow-and-arrow cast.

In response to our recent Ask MidCurrent article What’s the Secret to Achieving a Dead Drift?, Norway-based angler André Brun sent us a cool video as an example of how you can use Spey casts and reach mends to help in a specific situation. I responded to ask what the benefits of this technique are over a Snap-T or Circle Spey cast followed by a reach...

"Fish porn" is—for better or worse—one of the staples of fly-fishing entertainment, for obvious reasons. Every angler dreams of catching the kinds of fish they see in videos from Alaska, New Zealand, and other exotic locales. But Capt. Chris Newsome from Virginia has posted a video of a different genre: casting porn." Spend a minute and a half watching...

If you've never thrown a two-handed rod before, starting out can be intimidating. Sure, it's still a fly rod and fly line, but the rod is even longer, the lines are more confusing, and the casting takes substantially more attention to detail. Speaking as someone who taught myself the basics of trout spey last year, it is worth the effort, though. And if...

We often hear about fly rods being more accurate than ever before, and while that's partly true, has it translated to anglers who are more accurate? And not just accurate with our fly placement, but also where the fly line lands? That's the question Dom Swentosky asks in his most recent article at Troutbitten, and it's one I think is worth answering. As...