Fly Fishing Instructions

Practice, practice, practice!

Reading instructions can be helpful, but then, like in drawing or painting, you need to do it yourself and give it a try as best as you can.

In my angling club in Milan, Italy, for instance, as it is common all over the world, the practice includes exercising on the grass in a local park.

..or like during the bamboo rod makers gathering in Sarnen in 2009.

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"It must be admitted that it is not possible to
make sure of this cast, but it is surprising how
often it can be done with success, especially
if there is a light wind down stream. There is
one corner known to me on the Itchen, where
good trout are constantly rising under the
further bank. The corner receives in conse-
quence special attention from every one who
fishes there. The stream here is slow and
smooth, and the fish become very shy : so much
so, that it is on many days very difficult to
cast over them at all without putting them
down. I have noticed at this place that when-
ever conditions are favourable for arranging the
drift of the fly in the manner just described,
the chance of rising one of these fish is very
much improved, and on still days in the summer
it is seldom that I can get a rise from one of
them in any other way. "

From: "Fly Fishing"
by Sir Edward Grey, London, 1899

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Fly Fishing Instructions...Bottom line

To make a long story short, when casting you should get the line curl in the proper way. That means that the loop must create a parallel line. See the picture below.

Fly fishing, the casting error