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

Fly Fishing - More thoughts on “selective" trout from Bob Wyatt

"We know that simple-brained animals like trout can’t deal with a lot of information at once, so while they are hunting they probably can’t think of much else.  This isn’t selectivity but tunnel vi...

Fly Fishing / Fly Casting - the Roll Cast

Fly Casting  - The Roll Cast. I can't over emphasise how important this cast is. Deceptively simple, the Roll Cast is the most useful and versatile cast there is - more so than the fundamental over...

How to Balance A Fly Rod

Perhaps that’s too literal an interpretation, but the whole fly rod and reel balance exercise is actually pretty pointless, after-all, when is the fly rod balanced? - standing in the carpark balan...

Drop the Hokey Cokey and make a faster fly cast

Here's the hook keeper 3 step: 1/ You are walking along the river between pools with fly rod in hand, fly hooked on to the hook keeper. Low and behold a 4 pound Brown trout appears in a nice lie...

Fly Casting Accuracy - Get on Track

Practice so that you can pull this over head cast out of your bag of tricks whenever you need a super accurate straight line cast. This is not likely to be the cast that you use all day every day o...