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Summary: Before fly casting, get the right amount of line out onto the water. Learn how in this free fly fishing and casting techniques video lesson.
Alvin has been a fly fishing guide and casting instructor for 12 years, and has been fly fishing for 32 years. He is a graduate of the first Joan Wulff fly-casting instructor's...read more
"ALVIN DEDEAUX: Now, we're on the water. So the first thing we need to do is get the line from here to out there. And the way we're going to do that is by pulling off however much line we want to cast. You can just pull it off. You can let it fall on the ground or wherever you are, and then we're going to use the rod tip to get this line out there. And basically, what you do is drop your rod tip close to the water and just kinda stroke it back and forth, left and right, and see how it pulls that line out there. Now, we're ready to start casting. You can also--if you watch here, you can see how that stroke in the rod left and right like that will just pull that line out. Nothing to it. Do that again. Just make a snappy motion and we're ready."
eHow Article: How to Get the Line Onto the Water in Fly Fishing