The Reach Cast: Video

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The reach cast can be the difference between catching fish and not. All too often you find yourself casting across fast water to a rising trout on the far bank. It's a classic set up and one that can make you crazy. You land your...



Fly Casting Problems Are Sneaky

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IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR FLY CAST IT'S PROBABLY HAPPENING BEHIND YOUR BACK. Do you know what your loop is doing when you're not looking? It could very well be mucking up your forward cast. Tailing loops, collapsing lines and fizzling forward casts can...



Tight Line Presentation Video

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In fly fishing slack is always a bad thing. One of the most common mistakes I see anglers make, when flats fishing, is presenting the fly with slack in the system. If your fly doesn't have a lifelike look, it's just another piece of trash to...



The Double Spey, For Single Hand

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Access to a couple of good Spey casts can be a game changer for single-hand fly anglers. All of the same physics that's at work in Spey casting carries over to the single-hand rod. Although Spey casting can be technical and intimidating for the uninitiated, it's...



Sunday Classic / The Echo Micro Practice Rod for Teaching Fly Casting

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No one is intimidated by a toy. I'm an evangelist. A true believer, and like any zealot, there is nothing I love more than sharing my faith. I find myself teaching a lot of fly casting. Whether you picked up a fly rod yesterday or twenty years...