Exciting I know. Haha! One thing you'll learn if you musky fish long enough- you have to make a LOT of casts. I mean like a LOT of casts. No, I mean... ok, you get it. Well, you won't until you do it, but you get my point. Also very applicable to fishing the sound.
You have to minimize your false casts or you will wear yourself out. Especially since you're casting a 10, 11 or 12wt rod that is casting a 400+ grain fly line and big flies that also often have a lot of wind resistance and/or added weight or both. And you are retrieving those flies to within a foot or 2 of your tip.
Fishing sucked today, but it was calm and I was bored so I shot a little casting action. Flip, flop, back & shoot!
Flip it back to get the leader out the guides.
Flop it forward to get some line out. Ideally, you get all you need out in this step, but that is fairly rare.
Back cast to get ready to shoot. I often let a little more line out during the back cast. It takes some practice, but it's easier with the big lines.
Shoot it! Shooting is an art in itself and every rod/line combo likes to shoot a bit different.
This is 70' out the tip on my Orvis Clearwater 11wt Musky specific rod. Casting an old Wulff TT11F, about 4' of 40lb Max and 16" of 100lb fluoro bite tippet and a weighted 4" perch fly from @Kfish that should have caught a musky by now. Sorry Lou, it's not your fly's fault.
It takes some practice, but once you get it you'll never false cast 3, 4 or 5 times again. I see guys whipping the water like crazy just to get 40 or 50' out. Find a line you can shoot and save your arm.
You have to minimize your false casts or you will wear yourself out. Especially since you're casting a 10, 11 or 12wt rod that is casting a 400+ grain fly line and big flies that also often have a lot of wind resistance and/or added weight or both. And you are retrieving those flies to within a foot or 2 of your tip.
Fishing sucked today, but it was calm and I was bored so I shot a little casting action. Flip, flop, back & shoot!
Flip it back to get the leader out the guides.
Flop it forward to get some line out. Ideally, you get all you need out in this step, but that is fairly rare.
Back cast to get ready to shoot. I often let a little more line out during the back cast. It takes some practice, but it's easier with the big lines.
Shoot it! Shooting is an art in itself and every rod/line combo likes to shoot a bit different.
This is 70' out the tip on my Orvis Clearwater 11wt Musky specific rod. Casting an old Wulff TT11F, about 4' of 40lb Max and 16" of 100lb fluoro bite tippet and a weighted 4" perch fly from @Kfish that should have caught a musky by now. Sorry Lou, it's not your fly's fault.
It takes some practice, but once you get it you'll never false cast 3, 4 or 5 times again. I see guys whipping the water like crazy just to get 40 or 50' out. Find a line you can shoot and save your arm.
