While we’re all stuck at home these days, and even in times when we aren’t, there are a few ways to practice your fly fishing without traveling to a destination. Learning and improving your basic fly cast is one of those ways.
Fly Casting
How to Hold a Fly Rod
There are certain things about fly fishing and learning how to fly fish that are simple yet make all the difference in the world. When you are just starting out and learning the fly fishing basics you’ll start out learning how to cast a fly rod. One of the most important and sometimes overlooked aspects of fly casting is how to hold a fly rod.
Fly Casting Basics
Fly Casting Basics and Where to Start
Fly casting has to be one of the funnest things to watch someone do. And once you have all of your essential fly fishing gear together, learning the fly casting basics is your next step. Previously we discussed what fly fishing is and the differences in spin fishing and fly fishing but here is a brief review.
What is Fly Fishing?
Fly fishing is a style of fishing where a weighted line, not a weighted lure, carries a nearly weightless artificial fly out to the fish. That’s the whole idea in one sentence. Everything else, the rod, the casting motion, the flies themselves, exists to make that one trick work.
If you’re just starting out, or you’ve never touched a fly rod before, this article will walk you through what that actually means. My goal is that by the time you finish reading, you’ll understand fly fishing well enough to start wanting to learn how to fly fish yourself, and to keep going from here into the rest of the fly fishing basics.