How to Fly Cast a Perfect Loop

Video Transcript

"Everybody wants to cast a perfect loop, o.k. A perfect loop is essentially when you have a top leg, and a bottom leg of the fly line. This is the perfect loop, as you can see how their parallel. A perfect loop could be one or two feet apart, this is how the cast is made. This is generated by making your rod tip stop, have the correct power application, slow, medium, fast, and stopping your rod tip and not moving your rod tip so the line continues to go. How does these parallel loops occur? They occur by moving your rod tip in a straight line rod tip path. That means that I'm going to move my rod tip in a straight line rod tip path, the same way that you see these fly lines. The rod tip will move in this straight line rod tip path and that will create our perfect loop. The advantage of the perfect loop is, a perfect loop enables the line to go very aerial dynamically through the air, o.k. Essentially, it will cast small dry flies, and small wet flies very well, o.k. Life, back, flip, there's our tight loop. See how easy that cast is? Essentially, what it amounts to, in the overhead cast and to make that perfect loop, the power application is three fourths on the back, and a fly rod is essentially like a spring. All you do is go forward, the spring is already bent back and the rod goes forward, and it makes your perfect loop. It makes your perfect loop if you stop the rod tip. Up, stop. See how I did not move the rod, that's what makes the perfect loop."