Louis Cahill
Don’t be afraid of tight quarter fly presentations
Gink & Gasoline
Below are Gink & Gasoline's tips to pulling off a fly presentation with a heavy tandem wet fly rig while achieving the same successful catch percentage as dropping your dry flies in tight quarters.
Gink & Gasoline's 4 Tips for TIGHT QUARTERS FLY CASTING ON SMALL STREAMS
- Position yourself where you can get the correct casting angle to your target and also get a nice drift.
- Strip off plenty of fly line but only start out with a foot or two of fly line when you begin your cast.
- Cast smoothly and watch your forward and backcast to get your timing perfect, and keep your fly rod traveling in a straight line path or flat plane.
- Reach the last remaining few feet to your target by shooting your line. You won’t always have enough room to false cast the entire length of fly line without getting hung up in foliage.
Below is a video for how it's done.
Originally published here.
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