Lefty Kreh's Solving Fly-Casting Problems

How To Improve Your Distance And Accuracy, And Make Casts In Any Situation

Lefty Kreh

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461749264
• Edition: 2

LEFTY KREH'S SOLVING FLY-CASTING PROBLEMS contains detailed descriptions, instructional illustrations, and troubleshooting techniques that every fly fisher needs to know. Lefty offers unparalleled advice about how to cast in windy conditions, how to accurately change the direction of a cast, tame tailing loops, send flies deep, make casts to reach under low branches, and much more. Anyone who has ever missed a fish because of a casting problem (and who hasn't?) needs this book.

Table of contents

• Introduction: Lefty the Wizard
• Foreword
• 1 Lefty’s Principles of Fly Casting
• 2 Footwork Is Important
• 3 Inefficient Roll Cast
• 4 Efficient Roll Cast
• 5 Elevated Roll Cast
• 6 Long-Distance Roll Cast
• 7 Side Roll Cast
• 8 Aerial Roll Cast
• 9 Learn to Tighten Your Loop
• 10 When the Wind Is on Your Wrong Side
• 11 Casting in Tight Places
• 12 Change-in-Direction Cast
• 13 The Tuck Cast
• 14 Stack Cast
• 15 Dropping the Rod for Slack
• 16 Ripping Line off the Water
• 17 Throwing an Extra-High Backcast
• 18 Mending Line Properly
• 19 Reach Cast
• 20 Controlling Line on the Shoot
• 21 Extra-Effort Cast
• 22 Using a Mousetrap
• 23 Using a Hula Hoop
• 24 Skip Cast
• 25 Tailing Loops
• 26 Loose Line at Your Feet
• 27 Catching the Line to Examine or Replace the Fly
• 28 Rod Angle
• 29 Casting Weighted Flies and Leaders
• 30 The Dump Roll Cast
• 31 Casting into the Wind