Get a Grip - Fly Casting Styles - Pt II the Key Grip
Imagine you are holding a set of keys and about to unlock your front door - that’s pretty much it. Knuckles facing up and out, palm down, heel of the thumb down on the grip. You'll form a nice V be...
Get a grip - Fly casting grip styles
Most fly casters are pretty well focused on improving their fly cast, but few of us give much thought to how we actually grip a fly rod. Over the next few posts we’ll take a look at the three most...
15 Tips For Better Spey casting - from April Vokey.
15 tips and common errors that I see regularly on both winter and summer-run steelhead trips. Of course some of these are not always errors — some are occasionally sound techniques — but nonetheles...
Tips on Skagit Tips - Spey casting tips from April Vokey
The first Spey line that I ever purchased came packaged in a box as thick as an encyclopedia. Like a book cover designed to culminate my curiosity, the word ‘Spey’ prominently highlighted the box’...
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 Cast Friday - Fly Casting in the wind - the three L's
I get a lot of anglers and customers asking about our fly rods and casting in windy conditions. The short answer is that battling the wind has more to do with technique and skill than the type or ...
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