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Fly Rods for Trout River Fishing. Information on fly rods and casts.
Fly Rod for Trout River Fishing A fly rod, carefully balanced to its line, gives an angler at least twenty feet more distance by this method, and he can accom plish this with the necessary finesse and precision to fool a suspicious trout or bass. Large, loose loops are usually held in the line hand in making this type cast. But there are several shortcomings to this. These large loops often get entangled when shooting the line, and they are a nuisance to make on the retrieve. A better method is to use a handover retrieve in fishing out the cast, depositing the line in short crisscross loops about eight inches long, in the palm of the line hand. This handover retrieve is accom plished by turning your line hand to grasp the line alternatively, thumb toward the rod tip, then the little finger. About eight inches of line is retrieved each time. When the cast is made and the line pull applied, one has but to open the line hand palm up to release the shooting line. This method has the added advantage that it is a very efficient way of working a wet fly or nymph pattern, giving that erratic movement so attractive to both trout and bass. Another fly rod cast which will put trout in your creel is the roll cast. The roll cast is the most beautiful cast of all in execution, and one of the most important. Quite often, on average trout streams, there will be occasions when streamside brush will prevent you from getting a decent backcast. Such situations call for the roll cast. With fifteen or twenty feet of line lying on the water in front of you, bring your fly rod back to the vertical or a bit past it, then switch the rod forward to a nine o'clock position, smoothly. Your line will describe a rolling circle to drop your fly lightly out to the limits of your line and leader. You can even release a little slack as the line rolls forward, gaining a bit more distance. With practice, an angler can drop a fly up to thirty-five feet distance with the delicacy needed to take trout under very adverse water conditions. Fly Rod Casts There are five different fly rod casts, and none of them are com plicated or beyond the ability of the average angler. But mark this: in each of those casts, practice makes for delicacy. The more prac tice, the more delicacy acquired a prime essential of all fly fishing.
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