let's face it if you're Fly Fishing you're going to have to deal with
wind it's going to happen and there are a few things you can do to make fishing
and wind a little bit more fun a little bit more successful and less frustrating
the first thing you can do is to shorten and stiffen your tippet wind can blow that tippet all
over the place and a longer tip it is going to get pushed back by the wind and the Fly is not going
to go where you want it to so shorten your tippet and sometimes even go to a heavier tippet even if
you think it's a little bit too heavy for what you're doing fish generally aren't as spooky in
the wind so you can generally go with the heavier Tippets now another way is to shorten up your cast
don't try to make a hero cast in The Wind try to get close to the fish if you can if you have
to make a long cast just know that you may hook yourself or you may end up getting frustrated so
if you can try to get your boat or yourself closer to the fish and make those short casts so if you
have a wind blowing at you as I do here the best thing to do is to make a cast and make sure on a
forward cast that you drop your elbow dropping the elbow is going to slice your line down through the
wind so just when you cast raise your elbow and lower your elbow if you cast and you push into the
wind if you push you'll know you've been pushing because you look out here at the end of the
cast and your arms way out here what you're doing with the headwind is you're just pushing straight
Against the Wind rather than slicing down through it so if you find yourself reaching way out here
when you cast try dropping that elbow and slicing down through the wind if you've got a wind behind
you usually easier to make a cast because you got the wind giving you some help and it often helps
to make a Belgian cast which is to bring your Rod off to the side on the back cast and then straight
over the top on the Forward cast that'll keep your cast lower lower to the ground where there's less
wind in fact the Belgian cast is a really good cast to use in any windy situation so it's very
simply just do your back cast and an angle off to the side come over the top and come down if
you have a wind coming across your body so that your Rod hand is on the far side that's probably
one of the best situations to be in you can use that Belgian cast and come over the top but the
wind is going to blow the fly away from you so that you're not going to be in danger of hooking
yourself when you get a gust to win if you've got wind coming toward your Rod side of course when
you make cast that's going to blow the fly into you so it can be dangerous number of things you
can do if the wind is fairly mild and not too bad you can use that Belgian cast and come over and
go over the top that'll work sometimes but if the wind really starts to blow low you've got to keep
that cast on the other side of your body so that you don't hook yourself so there's a number of
things you can do one is to just cast across the opposite shoulder by bringing your thumb up to
your opposite ear so I'm going to make a cast and I'm casting across the opposite shoulder
rather than this shoulder as I normally would again that's going to keep that back cast to the
other side and keep it away from me and you can also what you can also do is you can turn around
make your cast in that direction and dump your back cast so you can either
go across here or you can turn around and make like your casting in that direction
but dropping your back cast when you're dropping that back cast for a cast one of the things we
tend to do is we tend to curl the rod tip around our body you want to make sure that that Rod tip
goes in a straight line just as it always should and Pete cuts are the great casting instructor
tells me all the time to point your shoulder at where you want the fly to go then make the cast
and deliver it to that side casting in the wind isn't always fun there are some days when you may
just want to quit and that's totally okay but if you keep your cash short pay attention to where
your fly is going you can deal with a moderate amount of wind without much trouble [Music]
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