Pillar 4: Technique

Whether it’s the first cast you learn or the second, the roll cast is a hard-working and versatile arrow in your casting quiver.

You’ve rigged up your rod, landed your cast in the right place, your fly is on the water...and, it’s waterskiing. Tactics and tips to maintain a drag-free drift that’s irresistible to fish.

All about indicators, floats, suspenders—whatever you call the thing every other angler calls a bobber.

Here are two examples of videos depicting the most visible and dramatic types of eats you’ll ever get: territorial brown trout going after streamers.

Once you’re through the main drag-free-drift area, it’s never a bad idea to try to impart some motion in your flies. The Leisenring Lift is a great way to accomplish just that.