Thanks Janusz, means a lot coming from someone as accomplished as yourself.👍

And set the hook with a roll cast.

Thanks Vincente - I suggest you take a look at Robert Gillespie's exercises, especially the Climbing Curve parts 1-2 and 3. They are brief but are gold.

There is a "correct way" and the "correct way" applies to all styles and results in good clean effective loops. Investigate the Gammel's 5 Essentials, they define the correct way. The correct way is also the style that suits the fishing you intend doing. Your "correct way" is not necessarily someone else's "correct way".

There's about 50cm difference between the two. Perhaps the angle.

I use this cast off the bank, no problem. Important that you maintain tension to avoid slack in the rod leg of the loop. I use it wading in saltwater as well, especially when I want to throw flies at GT's. Tension, tension, tension and line speed.

Gas bubbles from rotting vegetation........

DANG!!!!!! Not nearly as exciting. But thanks for the help on the cast.

The biggest enemy of good fly casting is slack. It could be that the air resistance of the bigger fly is slowing down your line speed and that your timing (coming forward) is therefore out (ie too soon). Timing with a big fly is different to timing with a small fly (on the same line). This is the usual cause. If the fly is weighted it can also kick around on the backcast and this introduces slack as well. Start by building distance and focus on maintaining tension. Also it just maybe that there's insufficient mass in the line to carry the fly, "use enough gun" as the saying goes. Also check out the oval cast on my page here - its my preferred technique for flies that would be considered "too big" for the gear in hand as it maintains tension throughout the cast.

Thank you kindly! @@petermorse5442

Look up Perry Poke or Tongariro Roll cast. What you do is with a secondary underpowered cast dump a pile of slack onto the water in front of you. This sets your anchor away from you allowing a smaller anchor out in front and a bigger Dloop.

What for? What species, how big, what conditions, what fly. All variables that determine the leader make up.

Arc.....

Thanks, That's a very good point and yes when the conditions become unsettling this stroke comes right into its own.

Do you think a slower rod with more glass would be better? So that the deeper bend would make the tip travel straighter?

I'm not a fan of glass because of the extra weight, especially up around 9 & 10 weights, but by pulling through the cast and applying the power (ultimate rotation) late through the wrist I don't have a problem with casting this way because of the speed you can generate@@MrSurfangler

@@petermorse5442 , thanks for the explanation, What about two handed overhead casting ? would it not be less intensive on the body? I am new to fly fishing as well and was a bit curious about this

Thanks Shane.

Gas bubbles from rotting vegetation.

@@petermorse5442 interesting, and thank you

Obrigado Ricardo.

i think it helped to manage all the line out

Just not an issue Skor, it clicks a bit but provided everything is pulled up fully tight its never been an issue for me and I have seen my back plenty of times..