Fly fishing is one of the few sports where the action itself is sometimes much fun the intended result. My favorite fishing author John Gierach once wrote that fly fishing is the best fishing, especially when you are not catching fish. I recently went out to a trout pond in Korea and saw a lot of people there basically there to just cast. Loooong super double haul casts. There was a lot of fish (enough for my friend to catch 26 fish in 3 hours) but these guys were interested in one thing only, making that super long cast. Distance is important when fly casting, however there’s a fine balance of elegance with performance. At least for me, without elegance - a sort of graceful easiness to the cast, it starts to look pretty ridiculous. Below are some images professionals launching their lines in the air ... mixed in a some our own photos, because newbies also sometimes make good fluke cast ;-)
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