Gink and Gasoline
Gink & Gasoline
You can sure catch a lot of trout with no more than ten feet of fly line, but does that mean that casting doesn’t matter?
I had this conversation recently. I was fishing a classic, pocket water stream with a friend and at some point he asked me point blank why I was catching fish and he wasn’t. He was shocked when I told him the problem was with his cast. Neither of us had more than ten feet of line out of the tip of our rod.
It’s a problem that plenty of beginning, and even intermediate anglers have. Even with a very short line, poor casts make for poor presentations. the problem is compounded in tight quarters where your first presentation really needs to be your best. Flailing about in close proximity to fish is generally not productive.
One of the most common casting mistakes I see anglers make, when casting a short line, is using too long a stroke.
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