The Drift - Fly Fishing, Fly Casting and Fly Rod Building

How to Cast Tight Loops - Fly Fishing & Fly Casting

Casting tight loops are is actually pretty simple in theory. Line and loop shape are primarily dictated by the path the fly rod tip takes during the cast and after the stop. The line does not follo...

Pick Up Lines - Tips to Improve Your Fly Fishing & Fly Casting

Pick Up Lines – Joe Mahler. Like the first spoken words when meeting someone new, so are the first movements of a fly cast. Did the cast begin smoothly and effortlessly, or did it start with a sudd...

Tips for Top Fly Fishing from a New Zealand Guide

It has been quite noticeable over 25 years of guiding that fly fishers rarely practice their casting techniques from one year to the next, often leaving any practice to only when they fish. Fortuna...

Fly Fishing - The 5 Essentials of Good Fly Casting

Bill Gammels 5 Essentials of Good Fly Casting. 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...

How & Why You Should Clean Your Fly Line

Why clean your fly line? Fly lines are expensive and there's more than one reason a little cleaning, care and maintenance will pay dividends. As you'll see in a moment there are a couple of very go...