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Introduction to Fly Fishing – Part B: Essential River Casts and Fly Fishing
Skills
If
you’re looking to improve your basic fishing skills or have taken Part A of
the course, this is the course for you! In this course, you’ll learn
essential line management skills: how to mend your line, feed line, strip
line, and shoot line to
extend your dead drift. You’ll learn essential river casts: roll cast, slack
line cast, reach cast, curve cast and, the ultimate river casting weapon:
the reach-curve cast. Finally, you’ll learn how to rig and cast a nymphing
line. Now you’re ready to sign up for a fishing trip! Let’s go fishing!
Cost
- 1 Day Course
$59 per person.
Fly
Fishing Courses Include
- Any needed rods/reels.
- Courses meet at Red's Fly Shop at 10 am unless otherwise noted.
- Quality instruction with a few laughs!
What to
Bring
- Picnic Lunch
- Fly rod and reel (if you have one)
- Waders and boots (we have a few sets for loan, but you should plan
on purchasing some at the shop or providing your own if you want to
wade).
- Sunglasses
- Visor or hat
- Jacket (class is outside)
Reservations
- Please call Red's Fly Shop at
509.933.2300 if you have any questions.
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Learn how
to fly fish rivers and streams!
For those of you who are graduates of my Basic Fly Fishing course or are a
bit rusty with your fly fishing skills and ready for a little tune-up (or
both), our all-new Essential River Casts & Fishing Skills is the “next step”
for you. This is a skills-focuses course beginning with a review of the
straight line cast. Then you’ll learn the line management skills you’ll need
to get the longest drift possible “dead drift” on the water: stripping,
feeding, shooting and mending.
Now learn to “fish the clock” - casting to any direction on the river –
using roll cast, the slack-line cast and the reach cast. Finally, combine
you line management skills and essential river casts to successfully present
your fly with the longest possible drift to waiting trout anywhere on the
river.
What happens when a trout accepts your offering? It happens in an instant
and you must be ready! This is the most exciting –and vulnerable part of the
contest: one mistake and the fish is gone! We’ll show you the important
skills, including how to set the hook and the line management skills
involved in fighting and netting the fish. Finally we’ll show you how and
when to gently release a fish unharmed.
How to tie fly fishing knots
Next, we’ll review the two knots we covered in “basic” (the surgeons knot
and the clinch knot) and show you the next three essential river knots
you’ll need river side: the nail knot, the precision loop, and the blood
knot.
With this essential experience under your belt, you’re now ready to consider
the equipment you’ll need for a day of fly fishing on the river. You’ll have
the opportunity to try out different rods, lines and reels. You’ll go on a
“cook’s tour” of the fly shop where we’ll show you the selection of
essential fly fishing tools you’ll use throughout your fishing day. Finally
we’ll match you with the equipment and supplies which are right for you,
your budget and your personal fishing style so that every day you’re on the
water is the best, most successful and most enjoyable it can be. In short,
we take pride in being your fly fishing outfitter as well as your instructor
and guide.
By the end of our 6-hour course, you’ll be ready to take your new skills and
knowledge to the river on your own or with one of Red’s professional guides
in pursuit a trophy rainbow or cutthroat trout. With these skills, some time
on the practice field and some fishing experience on the water, you’ll be
ready for our Advanced Casting and Fishing Tactics. This course is for
experienced fly anglers who are looking to learn or hone the advanced
casting skills, angling strategies and river tactics which will set you
apart on the river and become the most successful fly angler you can be.
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