Fly Casting

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...

Who couldn't use some help with their cast? Even the best anglers I know are always willing to look at ways to improve. And if you're like me—avid but decidedly average—you're happy to get all the help you can, especially with casting. Mac Brown has a five-second casting fix, over in Fly Fisherman Magazine, that'll make a big difference in how well...

Have you ever heard of underhand casting? Me neither. But apparently it's a technique that has some value, because the folks over at Loop Fly Fishing put together a wonderful video detailing the technique. You can view it below.

The roll cast is one of the most effective tools in an angler's arsenal, but it's rarely utilized to its full potential. In a recent story over at the Orvis blog, Phil Monahan walks us through how to use the roll cast for efficient upstream dry fly fishing. You can read the story here. online pharmacy mobic over the counter with best prices today in the USA

Presentation is everything in fly fishing. The wrong fly, fished well enough, can often be the right fly. And even if you have the right fly on, it doesn't matter if your presentation isn't up to snuff. A big part of presentation is being able to accurately cast your flies where they need to go, which is the basis of Dom Swentosky's latest piece over...

One of the most common problems any fly caster will face is that of tailing loops. Usually, this is a problem for folks just learning to fly fish, but it can afflict veterans of the sport, as well. That's why the folks over at Epic Fly Rods put together this blog post that details what causes tailing loops, and some great ways to eliminate them. Read the...