I feel like this was indirectly some sorta Maui Jim/ Tommy Bahama advertisement 🤷‍♂️🤣

Nice!

Thanks for the video! Again, great explanation.

Thanks for the advice. Great explanation!

Thanks!

Very good ! Not seen on other vids about fly casting

Great idea! I’ve been casting at my bird bath and garden benches to build my accuracy. I also use the orange lids for Home Depot buckets. Can’t reel them in. I’ll check out your website.

how about gluing 2' of leader to the fly line and then put on a tippet ring?

Mike, this is great. It takes a long time to learn by trial and error. I wish I had your videos years ago.

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Sound advice Mike. Loving your videos

Good advice ! Thanks . What type of line are you using to practice with? It looks like a thick yarn.

Very interesting approach, Iike the concept to pull the line instead of throw it.

Great video Mike on an important skill to learn in becoming a proficient caster based on fishing conditions.

Fixed another mistake for me, thank you sir

Very important and helpful one, thank you.

Very good idea!!!

Good advise

This answered a very important question for me: why is my cast curving? Thank you sir

Fantastic. Blindingly obvious, but not until someone says! Thanks

Thank you sir. My issue is that when I cast when my line straightens out in front it then jogs left so my line lays on the water in a large C shape. I can get the line out pretty far, but the accuracy is garbage due to the curve. I am right handed. Any idea why this is happening?

I have been fly fishing since the 1950's and I always used a metal eyelet with barbs to push inside the fly line. The barbs prevents the eyelet from pulling out of the inside of the fly line. Then I tie on my leader and then used blood knot or similar to put on tippet if necessary for trout or other clear water fishing.

I seem to have difficulty with this cast. I will give it a try your way. Thanks for sharing this.

Super helpful thanks

The standard technique we used as fly instructors years ago to explain this was - "peel, pluck, pause, pat". We would say 'it's not about brute force, it's about storing energy in the rod'. Peel the line off the water, accelerating a bit then a plucking action to cast it backwards, then pause to let it straighten out and load the rod, then pat it forward with the rod unloading its tension. Alongside this explanation we showed them how they pluck and pause the rod not far off the vertical in order to create tight loops that do the work for you. To reinforce this understanding we sometimes tucked the butt of the rod temporarily into their jacket sleeve just to show that the rod should not be too loose in their wrist. One way you can convince them that this physics works is to get them to hold the rod horizontally in front of them and cast sideways with very short movement and they can feel the line pulling out of the rings. Being a good teacher is the hard bit.

Good vid buddy! Ty! Have you tried tenkara? Keep it going!

It seems like the same logic of line thickness in terms of presentation would also apply to the leader. If you use the entire length of a 9 4x leader and the you add 4 feet if tippet you affecting your ability to load the rod. Would it be beneficial to reduce the real thin part of the leader too?

Great video. Makes perfect sense!

Thanks Mike! It does take some restructuring of the brain to go from "the lure pulls the line" to "the line delivers the fly". It's a physics thing, a math thing, a patience thing.

Hey buddy. Thanks again for your content. Learning so much and smiling….. Ty

Great tip. It is so important but so hard to achieve! The most challenging is to follow vertical plane when we have the rod in an angle of eg. 20°. Especially when we do not watch our back cast.

Thanks for sharing this tip, sir. You seem like a good teacher!

Fantastic tip! Thanks.

Thanks for using the correct terminology i.e. hemostats. You got stream cred.

Excellent video!!! Thank you!🧔🏼‍♂️👍

Dude get your framing right. The half head in the picture is really distracting

I also have learned to tie a Davey knot. For me it’s the easiest for small flys / low light conditions. Cheers

Ha for a country that has possibly provided the highest quality fly fishing gear ever through the years from Sage downwards it sure looks like you are about to give it all up to cheap Chinese crap produced by exploited workers under a non democratic regime! Maybe that’s what’s about to happen in the greatest country in world as well come November ,it’s not just bargains on line from Temu ,there’s more sinister plans afoot and the average American worker will soon find out what when that reality star takes over at the White House !

Brother, I applaud you!! I lost everything in the divorce and had a regal vice. Depressed and struggling to feed my kid, you gave us a way to bond and have a great time in the water. Ty Keep it up!

Great informative video, thanks!

Mega Thx!

2 bober stoppers and 1.5mm tippet ring. Pass the line through the center of the tippet ring. Use bober stoppers to control where you want it on the leader.

Ive watched scads of dropper videos. You sir, made the best video I’ve seen. Thank you!

Excellent review. Thank you.

Nice trick. I use a similar method for starting my dropper rig around my finger, and then slipping the loop over the dry fly hook before cinching it down.

FYI since u showed the hemostat to tie a clinch, u can use the hemostat to tie a surgeons knot or even better to tie an ORVIS knot to add tippet to your leader. just check out some video. but it makes adding tippet a breeze in the river!!!!

Thank you! I’ll give this a try this weekend.

Great tip. Do you plan on doing anymore tying videos?

Mike thanks so much for your videos! I really enjoy and I learn something every time.

I just recently discovered your videos. They are so informative! Thanks for continuing to create content. The Hemostat clinch knot is a good tip, but how is a guy with deteriorating vision supposed to thread a size 20 or smaller in his tippet? Do you have any tips there, beyond wearing cheaters around my neck?