Orvis Guide to Better Fly Casting: A Problem-Solving Approach

by Al Kyte

Overview

Fly casting might look easy—you just move the rod back and forth, right? Yes, that’s true, but between “back” and “forth,” a lot can go wrong. The perfect marriage of human skill and dexterity to the cork and graphite of today’s fly rods takes a good bit of work, and this is the how-to book that gets you around common mistakes and bad moves so that you can develop the muscle memory that makes for easy, accurate, and highly successful fly casting. Author Al Kyte’s instruction, with numerous full-color photographs, breaks down the parts of the cast to get you to better understand what is happening and how to put all of the parts of your cast together to make noticeable improvements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592288700
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	Orvis
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	9.26(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Al Kyte has been teaching fly casting and fly fishing for thirty years through the University of California Extension and the Mel Krieger–directed Fenwick Schools. He is the author of Fly Fishing—Simple to Sophisticated and of numerous magazine articles. He lives in Moraga, California.

Table of Contents

Preface     v
Better Basic Cast
What Is a Better Cast?     3
Elements of Style in the Overhead Cast     8
The Short Overhead Cast     27
Practice Progressions for the Short Overhead Cast     38
Adding the Line Hand     51
Better Distance Cast
Casting for Distance: Purpose Changes Movements     63
Style Differences in Distance Casting     73
Adding Drift     83
Adding the Double Haul     95
Better Problem Solving
Learning Your Fly Rod-One Movement at a Time     107
Combining Your Fly Rod's Movements     125
Applying Rod Movements to your Fishing     138
The Continuing Journey to a Better Cast     148
Acknowledgments     151
Index     152
About the Author     160

Recipe

Fly casting might look easy—you just move the rod back and forth, right? Well, that’s true, but between “back” and “forth” a lot can go wrong. The perfect marriage of human skill and dexterity to the cork and graphite of today’s fly rods takes a good bit of work, and this is the how-to book that gets you around common mistakes and bad moves so you can develop the muscle memory that makes for easy, accurate, and highly successful fly casting.

Author Al Kyte’s instruction and numerous full-color photographs break down the parts of the cast to help you better understand what is happening and how to put all of the parts of your cast together to make noticeable improvements. Geared for fly casters of all skill levels, particularly beginning and intermediate casters, Kyte’s systematic method of changing and controlling the various ways a rod moves can help you approach those hard-to-reach fish and fool them into taking that favorite fly pattern in a strike.