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March 30, 2021 3 min read
We're all about fly casting here, it's what drives us to make the world's best fly rods
I have always maintained that if you want to improve your fly fishing the place to focus your effort is on improving your fly casting and presentation skills.
These 5 fly casting essentials were developed by Bill Gammel and introduced in Texas in 1990. They apply to all good single handed casts and overhead casting with the two handed rod.
The “5 essentials of fly casting” have become a core tenant of the Fly Fishers International Casting education and instructors programs.
While the accompanying fly casting video clips are about 10 years old now, and many will have seen them already, they are a solid reference to help illustrate Bills 5 essentials. These fly casting videos have featured far and wide on many blogs and websites. They regularly appear on the Orvis blog and Midcurrent and have received millions of combined views. The entire collection can be viewed on our fly casting YouTube channel here
Our complete fly casting instructional video “Casts that Catch Fish” is available on our store here
If you can nail these 5, and really understand them and their implementation, your fly casting and hence fly fishing will improve out of sight.
And if you ever consider becoming a qualified fly casting instructor with the FFI then knowing these essentials inside out is absolutely vital to your study and fly casting instruction.
Carl McNeil
FFI Master Fly Casting Instructor
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Paul Brown
April 12, 2021
Rock solid advice. Thanks for the share.