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