Frustrated? How to Improve Your Fly Cast in ONE EASY Practice Session

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Fly fishing for trout, fly fishing for Cutthroat in the Pacific Northwest has been a passion of mine for the last 40 years. I have spent most of my life fly fishing the great Pacific Northwest to include fly fishing in Alaska, fly fishing in Washington, fly fishing in Oregon, fly fishing in Idaho and fly fishing in Montana. I generally will fly fish and practice catch and release when fly fishing for trout, but I have been known to catch and cook during camping trips to many of my favorite fishing spots. I love to fly fish lakes in the higher elevation, though I have a few lowland lakes that are fly fishing only that are also on my most favorite list. I have a ton experience fly fishing rivers for trout and always enjoy discovering new rivers to fly fishing in and around the greater Pacific Northwest. I am also an accomplished at casting a fly rod - whether it is fly fishing casting for distance, fly fishing casting for accuracy, the double haul, roll cast, tower cast and many more fly fishing casting techniques - I can show you the basics when it comes to casting a fly rod. I also will cover many topics that relate to getting started with fly fishing. From your basic fly fishing setups, flies and fly boxes - we cover all the fly fishing needs for beginners. Thanks for taking the time to tune into FlyFishDan and I hope you consider subscribing to my fly fishing channel. Cheers and FISH-ON!!!

[sidneyromine]

I see and understand what I am doing wrong now. Thank you Sir. I have thought about video myself when I practice casting.

[rschiwal]

My first day of fly fishing lessons, I was shooting the line and nailing 70 feet. The second day I added a fly and water and wind and improved to 20 feet.
My first cast hooked a fish, I set the hook and then learned that my knot tying was shit because I was fishless and flyless.
I congratulated my Orvis instructors. They took a lousy fisherman and made him into a lousy fly fisherman.

[andrepauze]

Hey Dan !! The best video 🎥 for beginner I have see yet. Simple and eazy to onderstand. Thx u 😊
Fish on 🎣!!

[charlespaynter]

Thanks Dan. Just sent this round to my friends who came with me recently to the local reservoir & are trying to get to grips with fly fishing. Very informative.👌

[BryanWentFishing]

Yup it does get frustrating at first. Some awesome tips there Dan. For me, my cast got better after I let go of the urge to cast faaaar. It got further on its own eventually. Presenting the fly and Accuracy > casting distance in my opinion.

[nellieupnorth]

Fantastic video!! Great tips... I am a beginner and definitely have been doing a lot of the "NOPES"
Thank you!

[jaytaylor]

Great video. You're a good teacher 👍

[chetmacdonald]

Double Haul IPA, on water you can use its resistence, and the haul line in your hand, to load up the rods spring, up off the water and forward with a cast or false cast, double haulin range, eats up all the slack, drops like a feather.

[feltn]

Great tips, yes in the beginning it can be very frustrating. One little tip that really helped me was to on the back cast wrist flick at the end was to stop the rod tip at a slight upward angle. You can use the wrist, it seems natural but the key is to use it at the very end as a speed up stop .

[davidlloyd]

Thanks Dan I know this recording is over a year ago but it’s great advise 10 to 2 I must mentally ingrain this in my mind and get the muscle memory going

God bless
Dave Lloyd UK

[jasonhumphry]

Some times I don't fish and watch my step son fish as I've caught many fish in my life time a fellow fisherman taught my step son to fly fish with a spinning rod and he was totally destroying blue gills with every cast after 6 hours of watching him I decided to fish my own ways and techniques but I tell you what I only caught 3 blue gills in a hour Joey my boy just keep catching them !!!!

[jhonatanharzdorf]

Thank you! Best explaining ever, watched a ton of videos but this was by far the best one.

[noelslater]

Thanks Dan, very helpful and much appreciated! i still need LOTS of practice with the double haul!

[kevinorton]

Picked up a cheap fly combo today and wanted to see what all the fuss is about. Watched some videos on how to cast and practiced for like 4 hours while I had a spinner cast out. Thanks to this video I now know what I need to work on so I don’t adopt bad habits and I was doing more things right than I thought. Haha! Thanks for the education! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[gauloiseguy]

Been fly fishing for the first time and pretty stoked. Had a great time while it lasted.

This video, among others, helped out a lot.

Got two handfuls of semi decent casts out in one and a half hour.
Then my tip section broke clean (literally a clean, straight break with no splintering) and the fun was over.

It cut my session way short (luckily I brought my regular fishing rod to keep fishing)

Gonna try to get a new top section under warranty as I did mess up but not in a way that should have broken that rod.
Bought a decent brand as well (Greys) as I learned doing stuff like this on the cheap is often more expensive than just buying a decent starter kit.

To be more precise, I bought the Greys Fin 9#5 combo.

Leaves me with a question.

Warranty asside, how common is it this happens? Did I just have the worst luck?

And how sensible is it to buy a spare top section for the rods you own as I like to go out with the spares I need for a common fishing day.

Any other tips you might have on this subject are very welcome.

[MaxisGameplays]

Always wear some sort of glasses when casting should be the number 1 tip. It's not very fun to get a hook in your eye.

[SteveAnderson-xedr]

Very green beginner here. When you are practicing your cast do you have any thing on you leader? Split weight or something?

[flybookies]

With the new rod and line techniques, there are now also new casting techniques. Swinging the line back and forth in the air is part of the old casting style.

[JoeLibrizzi]

I'm a new fly fisher and your videos have helped tremendously, thank you. Still getting fouled up with something tho - my false casts look good, tight loops and full extension. But then my actual cast hits the water pretty hard, like a slap rather than just laying down. Any thoughts on what could cause that?

[tincatinca]

Oh my gosh, only if i knew how to stop whipping it sooner, was just practicing today and snapped the line 2 times in 1 hour