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Fly Fish - Parts of the Cast

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Dusty Wissmath
Dusty Wissmath's Fly Fishing School & Guide Service
http://www.dwflyfishingschool.com/  
717-328-9400

Dusty grew up in Missouri, started fly fishing at age eight, and spent his formative years highly distracted by the sport.  He began guiding and teaching fly-fishing in the early seventies while working on a degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of Wyoming.  Living in Jackson, WY after graduate school he tied commercially for High Country Flies and guided on the Snake, Green and New Fork Rivers and in Yellowstone National Park. 

After working as a Biologist in Wyoming and East Africa, Dusty started his fly-fishing school and guide service in 1995.  He also served as the lead instructor at the L.L. Bean Fly Fishing School in Virginia and still teaches at the Wulff School of Fly Fishing in New York.  He is a Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor and is a member of the Board of Governors of the F.F.F. Guides Association.   When he’s not teaching or guiding, Dusty gives casting demonstrations and workshops at sports shows from Montana to Virginia.  His articles and photographs can be found in several outdoor magazines.

Dusty is on the Pro Staff of the Scott Fly Rod Co., Ross Reels, & Hyde Drift Boats and is a fly designer for Brookside Flies of Denver, Colorado.  

Fly Fish - Parts of the Cast

Fly fishing expert Dusty Wissmath demonstrates how to fly fish, including the different ways to cast and use reels.

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Dusty Wissmath: Hi I am Dusty Wissmath and this is the introduction of fly fishing. Right now we are going to talk about the parts of the cast. We said that the fly rod is the flexible liver and we said that the fly line is the flexible weight. The first thing that we are going to do in our casting fly line, is to lift line off of the part of the water with the fly rod, that flexible lever. That s is called loading the rod. It starts as we lift that line off the wader. Loading the rod means that we are actually storing energy in this fly rod as it flexes. We are storing potential energy in the fly rod. The next part of cast is an acceleration to a quick stop. What that does is change that potential energy in to kinetic energy. Would we accelerate the fly rod into a quick stop, the tip of the rod grabs a piece of fly line closest to it and flips it over, and unrolls that fly line in a loop, and that s what we are trying to accomplish when we make any fly cast. So that are the basic parts of fly-cast. And now let s start out and I will show you the roll cast.

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