Sandy Moret helping an angler work on casting the haul on day 1 at the Florida Keys Fly Fishing School in Islamorada Florida.
Double haul, and welcome to the most fun part of fly fishing: casting
By Skip Clement
The double haul seems counterintuitive once you realize it makes it easy to load the fly rod beyond pure muscle. It’s so simple to practice, and catching on quickly is rewarding. To cast using the double haul takes any angler out of the 30-foot cast limit.
There is no way a 30-foot cast will catch this bad boy. Permit illustration by award-winning watercolorist Thom Glace. Visit his site here . . .
It’s all about ‘down-up’
Assuring anglers that they will enjoy some astronomical percentage cast-to-catch ratio by flipping a fly 15=feet beyond the rod length (9+/-feet, plus arm length) defies logic for anyone wanting far more than 30-feet.
Coastal cutthroat trout fresh from the Pacific ocean. A Thom Glace illustration.
Most fish are more than 30-feet away
Thirty-foot cast limitations exclude 90% of potential catches, not the other way around, as popularly advertised. Catching with 30-foot casts could be confirmed in a pond, small lake, or stream—especially mountain streams.
Double Haul Videos:
Capt Andrew Derr, private lessons . . .
***Flip Pallot and Brian Flechsig . . .
Florida Keys Outfitters Fly Fishing School . . .
Joan Wulff School of Fly Fishing . . .
RIO Products Simon Gawesworth . . .
Lefty Kreh, Father of modern FlyFishing . . .
