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Jimbo87
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- Mar 7, 2012
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Hey Guys,
I'm new to the site and the sport, and recently got out on Sunday to give my first go at fly fishing. After watching several YouTube videos on various types of casts, and finding out that the roll cast should be a go to....I am finding myself a bit confused.
So, what I've figured out (and what YouTube has told me) is that you don't use a roll cast to change direction of your cast. Now this is where I get confused - lets say you're fishing a bank, and you are facing it from the opposite side of the creek. You want to cast out to let your fly float down from above the pool, through it, out the tail end, and then recast to repeat this process.
Another way to visualize, is to cast to 10 o'clock, drift through 12, end of target area at 2 o'clock, and now its time to recast back to 10.
If the roll cast is not meant to change direction of the existing line, how do you go about doing this?
- Jimbo
I'm new to the site and the sport, and recently got out on Sunday to give my first go at fly fishing. After watching several YouTube videos on various types of casts, and finding out that the roll cast should be a go to....I am finding myself a bit confused.
So, what I've figured out (and what YouTube has told me) is that you don't use a roll cast to change direction of your cast. Now this is where I get confused - lets say you're fishing a bank, and you are facing it from the opposite side of the creek. You want to cast out to let your fly float down from above the pool, through it, out the tail end, and then recast to repeat this process.
Another way to visualize, is to cast to 10 o'clock, drift through 12, end of target area at 2 o'clock, and now its time to recast back to 10.
If the roll cast is not meant to change direction of the existing line, how do you go about doing this?
- Jimbo