Once you've learned the basics of the double haul, now we have to begin to
try and fine tune that double haul, adding a little bit of extra distance,
maybe dealing with some real windy conditions. Remember, when we're salt
water fishing, speed and accuracy is of the essence. We want to get that
fly to that fish right away, so we don't want to false cast a lot. So,
there's a couple things we can do.
Haul, shoot a little bit of line, haul, shoot that line, now back
underneath that finger, closing that bail. That's going to help get that
long cast quickly. Remember, get that fly to the fish. Okay, don't have it
up in the air. As we progress with this double haul, let's say we're
dealing with windy conditions, and we've got to make that nice tight loop
and deal with that wind.
What we want to start to do is make this haul is make a nice smooth
transition from one haul to the next, and our hauling hand actually starts
to move in a little bit of a circle. We're going to haul, reposition, haul,
reposition, haul, reposition. We're going to keep that hand moving; so
nice and smooth , reposition, nice and smooth, reposition, keeping that
hand continuously moving and that can help us deliver that fly out quickly
to that fish.