Do you ever struggle with your accuracy and fly casting? You try to hit that spot on the bank

where you see the fish feeding as you make your cast. It's going towards the spot and then it hooks up

on a tree limb on the other side and you break off having to sit down for 10 minutes to build a new

rig. And are you content with the amount of line you can cast right now or would you like to increase that with a nice sexy loop? And what if I told you today's guest lives in Malaysia on a boat and is quite possibly the best flycaster in the country and the world right now? Stay tuned because we're going to cover it all today. This is the Webfly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. Hey, how's it going? I'm Dave, host the Webfly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing podcast in this country. I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers than just about anyone out there.

Paul Arden, an online casting instructor and the man behind sexy loops.com is here to take us

behind the scenes and how he put it all together. You're going to find out what the four key

blocks are to the flycast and how you can implement them today. You're also going to hear about

why you should be walking while you flycast to increase your skills there. And you're going to find

out why 10 to 15 minute session, that's all it's going to take as you go to keep elevating your

cast this year. Plus, we're going to find out how Paul catches snakehead and why this is such a cool and tough, challenging fish to catch in the part of the world he's living. We've got an Iron Man on today. Let's see how he does it all. Paul Arden from sexy loops.com. How you doing, Paul? I'm very good.

How are you, Dave? Great, great. It's really awesome to have you on the podcast. I've heard a lot about you over the years. I think probably from the day one that I started this, sexy loops was I had heard about it. I knew, you know, I'm not really, I'm not in the community all the time, so I don't know all the details today. we're gonna talk about that, you know, what it is,

maybe what some listeners can, you know, find a value in there. And also casting, you're an expert, flycaster, certified, all that. So we're going to talk some casting tips. And then maybe talk about snake hitting some of the species. and you know and I guess one other thing is we're talking about you know where you're at in the unique place where you're living. But first, let's take it back to fishing. How did you get into fly fishing? What's your first memory out there? Huh. That's a good question. So I started fishing as a kid, you know, like with a net, catching little sticklebacks and sticking him in a jam jar and taking them back to my grandmother's

house so they could swim around the kitchen and taking them back to the river the next day.

And then my first fishing rod was the age of six. I still got a really good picture of that,

how excited I am and not much has changed. And so I grew up course fishing. And then I was given a fly rod

as a present at the age of 10. And then so around inning, I grew up course fishing and then I was given a fly rod as a present at the age of 10

and then so around in I grew up in I was first in Scotland and then in England and I was in

Essex around London and you have all these reservoirs that were built in this 60s and 70s for water

for the London consumption so there was a reservoir local to me called

Ardley Reservoir. And as a schoolboy, I fished there pretty much all the time. And then from

the 815, because when you turn 16, the tickets, you suddenly become an adult. And the tickets

went up five times in price. And my mom mom asked my mom went in and said do you

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