Casting Skills Offered

• Developing good casting skills improves your fishing experience, builds your casting confidence and progresses your casting towards more advanced skill levels.  Lesson are be tailored to your goals, your style and skill level. 

Casting Skills Available

• Rod, Reel, Line Assembly
• Understanding How a Fly Rod Works
• Understanding Loops 
• Loop Control
• Change of Direction Casts
• Pick Up, Lay Down Cast: Dominate Side and Non-Dominate Side
• False Casting: Dominate Side and Non-Dominate Side
• Slipping Line
• Shooting Line
• Retrieving Line
• Change of Direction Cast: Dominate Side and Non-Dominate Side
• Roll Cast (static & dynamic): Dominate Side and Non-Dominate Side
• Roll Cast Pick-Up
• Casting for Accuracy: Dominate Side and Non-Dominate Side 
• Presentation casts and aerial mends
• Casting Options in Windy Conditions
• Water Tension Cast
• Belgian Cast
• Casing in Windy Conditions
• Distance Casting
• Euro-nymphing Casts
• Hauling (single/double)
• Sitting and standing Casting
• Fly Fishers International (FFI)  Fly Casting Skills Development Program (FCSD)
• FFI Salt Water Ladder Skills Development Program with Saltwater Quick Cast through FFI
• Practice Drills

Fly Casting Skill Levels

Beginning Fly Casting-You will learn to:

• Set-up rod, reel, line assembly
• How the rod works
• Identify thee loop shapes
• Perform a Pick-up, Lay-Down Cast, False Cast, Roll Cast
• Change of Direction Cast
• Casting with rod tip over both shoulders (dominate and non-dominate side)

Novice Fly Casting-You will learn to:

• Control of loop shape
• Roll cast narrow and wide loops
• Control the loop size (wide and narrow) on false casts (overhead cast)
• False casting at various distances
• Accuracy and trajectory (accurately hitting targets)
• Uses of the line hand
• Shoot line to gain distance
• Cast with the rod tip over both shoulders
• Water tension cast

Intermediate Fly Casting-You will learn to:

• Cast with narrow loops on both front and back overhead casts and roll casts
• Slip line when changing directions and distances
• Singl haul 
• Constant accuracy while slipping and retrieving line
• Casting at distances beyond 45 feet
• Basic slack line presentation casts and aerial mends
• Basic safe casts for windy conditions

Advanced Fly Casting--You will learn to:

• Double Haul
• Accuracy while slipping, retrieving, and shooting line
• Distance casting
• Presentation casts and slack line aerial mends
• Various casts for windy conditions
• Specitaly casts (Belgian cast and Salt water quick cast)