Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Welcome to the Orbis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. We're in the next 15 minutes without visual

aids. I'm going to teach you how to become an expert flycaster.

Not really.

But this is in response to a listener request who wanted some tips on flycasting and it's what all of us need.

Even those of us that have been doing this for 40 years need tips on our flycasting.

I know I do. Some of us pick it up more easily than others and

take heart that just take some people longer to pick up than others. I remember back in the

late 1970s when I was an instructor in the Orvis flyfishing schools and we had the great Fran Tarkington here taking the school and one of the things I remember about him other than the fact that he was a wonderfully warm and humble human being

was that he had never picked up a fly rod before and he watched this demonstrate for a couple minutes and we gave the

students fly rods he picked up the rod and made a beautiful fly cast across the

pond. Unfortunately most of us don't have the hand-eye coordination or the diligence of a fran

target and so we're going to have to take things a little bit slower.

I can't teach you how to fly cast here, and I'm assuming that you've at least had a fly right in your hand and done some practicing

had a few lessons and so on but you've got some problems with your fly casting don't we all.

And here are some tips to hopefully help you get started in polishing your casting a little bit more.

There are three basic things to remember when you're learning out of flycast.

Practice, practice, and practice. That's the most important

thing. The more you do it, the better you're going to get. Most really good fly casters

practice every day for two hours a day, every single day for two hours a day every single day. You're not going to be able

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