In fact, it may be the primary reason my passion for fly fishing hasn’t wavered during the past 25 years.   I love the feel of casting and in recent years I have spent untold hours casting nothing more than a small scrap of yarn.  When speaking with clients about casting, I consistently, some say incessantly, talk about the importance of practice if one wants to continue to improve.    You need not concern yourself with finding access to water front or a casting pool as your practice sessions don’t require water.  A large open space is all you really need.

Because of my personal desire to improve both my casting and teaching skills, I am always on the look out for casting books, informative blog posts and videos.  In the coming months, in effort to share some of the highlights, I will post links to some of my favorites.

I will start with a couple of blog posts from Gink+Gasoline.   The first discusses the five essentials of a good cast (The Essentials).   You will find variations of these essentials or principles in books by Lefty Kreh and Ed Jaworowski.   The second link elaborates on a couple of the fly casting essentials in a post entitled “Fly Casting Made Simple.”  This post describes three of the most common fly casting mistakes.  As they say, we can learn from our mistakes.