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Once you can manage a reasonable forward cast, often called a “pick up and lay down”, you should focus on expanding your repertoire of casts. Due to limited space, I can only describe the basic mechanics of three, but these will hopefully get you started. ROLL CAST The roll cast...

If you’ve followed TFO’s How to Get Started in Fly Fishing series, you have a rod, reel, fly line and leader from parts I, II, III and IV. Now you need to be able to cast. You don’t need to be Lefty Kreh or Flip Pallot to catch fish, but...

Welcome to part one of TFO’s fly fishing for beginners. Starting today, our series will be divided into five weekly segments --- an introduction followed by singular posts on rods, reels, lines/leaders and casting. Let’s be honest. Fly Fishing, at least at its advanced levels, is not easy. It can...

Lefty is No. 1. So says the editorial staff of Fly Fisherman Magazine, which compiled a list of the 50 most influential anglers of the past five decades and placed TFO’s Bernard ‘Lefty’ Kreh at the top of the heap. “Absolutely, he deserves to be No. 1 on that list,”...