Comments on: How to Deal With Wind While Fly-Fish Casting

on 1/13/2007 ummmm - avoid the double haul?
Hauling directly increases line speed, and this is essential for delivering your fly into the wind. You require fast tight loops aimed low to the water.
employ a short, zippy haul late in the stroke to maximize effect.
drivng your final cast often introduces an unsustained excessive burts of power, and results in a tailing loop, rather than an open loop.
Smooth acceleration culminating in a crisp, positive stop will have more efect than 'giving it heaps'.
technique, not power~!
chris dore

on 3/25/2006 (1) Resist at all costs- "driving" your cast into the wind! Concentrate on a good tight normal speed casting stroke. If you drive your final cast into the wind you will end with an open loop which will pile into a puddle.
(2) Avoid trying to double haul. Long casts aren't needed and the wind will create enough chop to give fish a sense of security and they'll come up closer to the surface to feed.
(3) You can also go to a sink tip line to really cut into the wind with less effort!
(4) Use smaller flies for less wind resistance.