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Cast With A Purpose!
By Justin Pickett Arguably, the most important aspect of fly fishing is the cast itself. If you can’t deliver the fly properly, the chances of you hooking up spirals down the toilet. Before taking a client onto the water, my first questions have to do with...
Don’t Ride the Brakes During Your Fly Casting
Are you finding that you're lacking distance and falling short of your target with your fly casting? Is your power and line speed insufficient? If the answer is yes, I bet you're also getting a fair amount of tailing loops or dreaded wind knots aren't you?...
Last Cast Bonefish
Bonefishing, for me, is the purest form of the drug. I’m just returning from the first of three G&G Bonefish Schools in the Bahamas. This trip was more of a reunion than a school, with better than half of the anglers returning for the second or...
Pick Up Your Fly Line and Recast Quietly: Video
The ability to pick your fly line up off the water quietly can be the difference between success and failure. In freshwater or salt making a loud pickup to recast can spook fish you might have otherwise caught. Of course we would all like to catch...
Forget The Wind: Tips for Fly Casting in the Wind
By Louis Cahill Fly casting in the wind is just fly casting…in the wind. “Ok, so I’m in my ready position, and the wind is blowing on my right side…” The question came from an angler at this year’s January Bonefish School. I didn’t need to hear any...