How to Get a Tight Loop in Fly Casting

Video Transcript

"ALVIN DEDEAUX: Now, the way you want to get that tight loop is by moving that rod tip and as close to a straight line as possible. So if you have your rod tip moving in a straight line, you'll get that nice, tight loop every time. As soon as you start moving your rod tip in an arc, you start getting the big wide loops. So moving the rod tip in close to a straight line, making a small slice of pie with that rod tip as opposed to making a big wide slice, a big arc. And then the other thing you want to watch out for when you're doing that is what your wrist is doing. If you focus here on my wrist, if I make sure that I never have more than about a 45-degree angle between here and here, then I won't have the big wide loop. As soon as you start breaking your wrist and opening up that angle, you end up moving that rod tip in a much larger arc and you automatically get the big wide loop. So here's the tight loop here, 45-degree angle, and there I get the big, wide, ugly beach ball loop there."