| Fly casting is a skill that most fly | | | | casting skills.Dressing to be reasonably well |
| fishermen would probably consider the most | | | | camouflaged, keeping low and not making any |
| integral skill of fly fishing for trout. | | | | fast or large movements, all play a role in |
| Certainly it is the most recognizable trait | | | | not alerting a potential target trout to your |
| of fly fishing.BUT, if catching fish is as | | | | presence. Even making sure you don't step |
| important to you as a great looking cast is, | | | | heavily on the ground as you approach the |
| then you may actually need to be careful just | | | | fishing spot, keeps your footsteps from |
| how much casting you do.Fly fishing has far | | | | resonating through the water. Sound travels |
| more in common with hunting than it does with | | | | very well under water, particularly for a |
| other forms of fishing. This is because trout | | | | creature who has receptacles designed to hear |
| are such a timid creature and are so easily | | | | within an aquatic environment.Without a |
| spooked. Although it is not such an issue if | | | | doubt, you will have to cast, and the better |
| you are fishing deep in large bodies of water | | | | practised you are at casting with a fly rod, |
| or in wide, fast flowing streams, it is still | | | | the less movement you must make to get your |
| for this reason that casting can also be your | | | | fly into the position you want it. So there |
| worst enemy when trout fishing.The classical | | | | is a good argument for spending time casting, |
| 'Long cast', although a beautiful thing to | | | | just for casting sake. This is best done in |
| behold, and even more beautiful to perform, | | | | an open place, preferably over water if you |
| does have it's limitations. It was designed | | | | have the luxury, like a dam or lake, but |
| to deliver a lure to a timid quarry, who | | | | anywhere that you are not going to catch any |
| would be spooked by splashing sinkers or | | | | unwanted items will do to improve your |
| floats or any of the traditional fishing | | | | skills.If you want to be successful, don't |
| equipment and tackle generally used for | | | | just trudge up to the waters edge and start |
| other, less discerning species. The whole | | | | casting out into the middle of the lake or |
| concept of doing this with a whip-like rod | | | | stream. The bulk of the aquatic life that the |
| and line was indeed an ingenious one.Trout, | | | | trout source as their food items are usually |
| and particularly Brown Trout, see everything. | | | | located towards the edges of the water, and |
| And the bigger the trout, the more they see. | | | | near to the aquatic plant life also.With this |
| The fly fisherman standing plain view false | | | | in mind, the trout will more likely be |
| casting is an obvious predatory threat and | | | | keeping as far out of reach of their own |
| will cause a fish to disappear into the | | | | predators as possible, while maintaining a |
| depths, without you even knowing the trout | | | | presence (cruising in still waters, on |
| was ever there.To catch good, wild trout in | | | | station in faster waters) close to their |
| smallish or still waters you must become an | | | | preferred food source. Larger fish preferring |
| ambush predator and learn to think like a | | | | deeper water for security, and structures or |
| hunter. This, the element of surprise, is one | | | | irregularities for potential dietary |
| of your greatest skills when fly fishing for | | | | supplies. |
| trout. Believe it or not, even above good | | | | |