Video: Proper Use of False Casting in Fly Fishing

When fly fishing, it's best to limit your use of false casting. Learn why, and how many false casting strokes to use, in this free fly fishing and casting techniques video lesson.

Video Transcript

ALVIN DEDEAUX: The thing you want to watch out though is not to get in a habit of doing a lot of false cast for no reason. Like I said, there's a couple of uses for the false cast but most of the time you want to try to get that fly back in the water as quickly as you can. I mean the fish are not in the air so waiving your line around in the air is not going to catch any fish. And also every time that you make a false cast, there's a chance you could do something wrong and mess up your cast, tangle your line or whatever. So if you're using the false cast to lengthen your line, you really don't need to make more than about four strokes so one, two, three, four. And if you're using proper casting technique, that's all the false casting you need to do to cast as far as you should ever need to cast. So just try not to make a habit of doing a lot of false casts unless you are trying to dry your fly out or you are trying to redirect your cast or, you know, move your fly over a different target. Four strokes is usually all you need: one, two, three, four.

Proper Use of False Casting in Fly Fishing

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