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All fly lines -- especially stiff lines -- have "memory." Take the time to stretch your line in your hands after pulling it off of the reel. It will improve your casting distance and accuracy and reduce tangles.
 U.S. WEST COAST casting instructor Jeff Putnam shows how to use the Snap-T — a cast originally developed for two-handed rods — in effective fishing with single handed fly rods. |
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Fly Fishing Videos
"Why Fly Fishing"
The Literature, Part Two
WATCH AND LISTEN to John Gierach as he draws the connections between fly fishing writing and the sport itself. As far as we know this segment, from the "Why Fly Fishing" DVD, is the only time Gierach has ever appeared in film. "We who fly fish," Gierach says, "think it's deeply meaningful until we try to explain why it's meaningful, and then suddenly it's just fishing again."
Fly Lines
Advantages of Clear Fly Lines
STEALTH HAS ITS PLACE, especially in the outdoors. Witness the growing popularity of the camouflage garment business and the extra money bow and rifle hunters are investing in scent blocker boots, pants and shirts that aid in stalking and still hunting, especially for whitetail deer and turkey.
On the fishing front, fluorocarbon fishing line/leader sinks faster than regular monofilament and is reported to be less visible under water. Despite exorbitant prices skinny spools of fluoro leader command, its reported invisibility and toughness first became popular with commercial rod and reel tuna fishermen long before bass pros and fly fishermen knew it existed.
Fly Fishing Techniques: Stripers
Stripers in the Surf: Your Best Shot
IT IS FIRST LIGHT when you hit the beach -- a thin rain drizzling through thick overcast. Third hour of the flood. Tide rising at its fastest rate. Surf bores two to three feet high stream in ragged lines toward the beach foreslope. The swash zone right at your feet is a caldron of turbulence. The sky teems with shorebirds of all sizes, tracking and diving into a profusion of mini-baitballs evenly distributed across and the surf zone.
Fly Fishing Videos
New: MidCurrent Fly Fishing Videos
WE'VE LONG FELT that the best way to demonstrate and teach many aspects of fly fishing — knots, casting, fly tying, even presentation — was with video. Now that coaxial cable runs into most urban and suburban households, plenty of clever and imaginative fly fishers are taking the medium and using it to showcase their talents.
For a complete list of all videos on the site, just go to our Videos index page. Or if you just want a sample of some of the ground being covered, check out "Fish Bum Volume I" ((Mongolia), "Red Gold" (Bristol Bay), or "Tying a Snowshoe Trico Spinner" (fly tying). We'll be adding many more videos in coming weeks, so be sure to check back often.
