How to Back Cast into the Wind When Fly Fishing

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Jim Dowd with Zoar Outdoor. I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk with you about fly casting. The next 2 segments are devoted to casting into the wind. For a fly caster, the wind is a fact of life. In this segment, we will talk about casting into the wind first, and the key to a good cast into the wind is a high back cast and a tight narrow loop driving right down to the shore, right down to the water, so that the fly and the leader unfurl at the exact moment that the fly touches the water. So high back cast, narrow loop, drive it right into the water when you are casting into the wind. What this does is it cuts right through and down to the water and avoids the power of the wind with the velocity of a high back cast. Just the opposite is true when the wind is at your back. In this case when the wind is at your back, you make a low back cast and throw it up high. Low back cast and throw it up high allows the wind to catch your fly line and carry it out to its furtherst extent. So in this case, you are using the wind to help you cast. So the wind is at my back and I make a low back cast and throw it high, low back cast and throw it high. Practice those casts in the wind driving down from a high back cast, if you are casting into the wind, and floating it up there high if the wind is helping you from behind. "