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