How to false cast a fly rod
ORVIS - Fly Casting Lessons - Adding Distance To Your Cast
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hi I'm Pete could sir with the orbits
flying schools today I'm going to talk a
little bit about getting more distance
in your cast as fly fishers you know or
most of the flight fishers I see they
always want to cast a little bit further
I'm a big stripe Wrangler I love striper
fishing and I when I first started
striper fishing I always thought the
further I can cast the batter the more
fish I'm going to catch well
I soon found out that that's not
necessarily the case an accurate cast is
more important but sometimes it is nice
to make a little bit of a longer cast
when we make this longer cast there's a
couple things we have to do the first
thing we have to do is make sure we get
a good cast so we got to move that rod
in a straight path and get a good stop
then move that rod for in this straight
path and get it to stop I like to say
that straight path is kind of like this
fly rod right here is if it's almost as
if you stopped at the rod tip and at the
rod bub and you're traveling in that
straight path the tricky thing is
there's a second straight path we have
to make sure that we're going straight
back and straight forward and as we make
a longer cast this straight path might
get a little bit longer we have to make
a longer casting stroke so when we're
casting we might have to bring that rod
further back and further forward we
might come way back here and way out
here the tricky part with distance
though is we have to make sure we stay
in that straight path if we deviate from
that straight path at all and get a
little twist it's going to be amplified
at that longer distance so when we're
casting just think straight back
straight forward as we make that longer
cast we might start making a longer
casting stroke we might come way back
here way out here me being so tall
having long arms I kind of favor a
longer casting stroke some folks that
are a lot stronger they like to load the
rod or bend the rod a little bit more we
got to bend that rod a little more load
it more to make that longer cast that
longer casting stroke for me helps me
make a longer cast so when I'm casting
I'm going to make a longer cast in the
back cast longer casts on the forward or
a longer stroke excuse me on the forward
cast when you're casting you want to
make sure that you don't deviate from
that straight path I see this a lot even
with some very experienced casters they
have a tendency when they make their
back cast rather than going straight
back that was in a very good cast rather
than going straight back and getting a
nice tight loop they have a little
tendency to twist got stuck in the grass
there let me see if I can pull that out
so let's try that again they have a
tendency to twist on their back cast
this little twist right here is a
deviation from that straight path notice
how that loop comes around from the side
it almost ends up here behind me I got
to keep that loop stacked right on top
of itself nice and tight and that's
going to help me make that longer cast
so when you're making this cast
notice how this casting stroke changes
as this line gets longer I have to wait
a little bit longer for that line to
roll out behind okay and that's my
timing all right but when I start with a
short line I also want to make sure that
I'm making a shorter casting stroke
shorter pause and notice my short
casting stroke shorter line shorter
pause now watch how this cast changes as
I make a longer cast I'm going to start
to shoot a little bit of line on that
forward cast I'm shooting some line now
amount to a longer length where I decide
I want to start double hauling notice
how my casting stroke is longer notice
how my pause just got longer my haul
just got a little bit longer now I'm
going to make that final cast and shoot
that line out I'm trying to do that in
one smooth shot okay I'm trying to make
that cast nice and easy if you try to
really force that cast or haul as hard
as you can you can potentially get a
tailing loop you might get that line to
hit itself or get stuck in the grass
like that right there so watch again I'm
going to start with this shorter line as
that line extends now I'd be getting
that haul I got that longer line longer
casting stroke longer pause now I want
to shoot that line nice and easy and
that can help you get a little bit more
distance when you're casting
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