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Fishing: How To Fish: Advanced: Fly Fishing
Casting: Mastering the Roll Cast
There are many variations of the basic fly cast, yet none is used more than the rollcast. Sadly, almost all fly fishermen make this cast poorly, or at best, inefficiently. Much of the blame falls on those who have taught the rollcast for generations. With a minimal amount of practice, most anglers could easily rollcast to 50 feet or well beyond that. But to do so, they have to understand three basic principles of casting.
Making an Inefficient Rollcast
First, a large loop is difficult to throw any distance. The size of the loop is determined by the distance the rod tip speeds up and stops at the end of the cast. The shorter the distance of the speed-up-and-stop, the smaller the loop and the farther the line will travel. Second, the line will travel in whatever direction the rod speeds up and stops in the final moment of the cast. Finally, the longer the rod moves throughout the casting stroke, the more it contributes to the cast.
Given those principles, let’s examine why almost everyone has problems rollcasting.
The angler raises the elbow and elevates the rod so the tip is angled up and slightly behind the caster. In a single stroke, the rod tip is then driven forward and down. By elevating the rod to a near upright position, it will be of little assistance. If the rod tip is then swept downward in a single motion, two problems occur. The size of the loop will be huge, and the line will go in the direction that the tip stops. What you’re asking the rod to do is this: Don’t help me much on this cast; throw the energy of the cast around a wide curve and dump the fly in the water in front of me.
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