Trip-Ready Casting Assessment & Preparation

Description

What happens next

1. You book. We send you what to film and how to film it. A side view, in a yard or a park, on a phone.
2. You send the video. We review it and come back with frame-by-frame markup, a voice-over walkthrough, and the one thing to work on first.
3. You work on that one thing. Then we look again, closer to your trip, with the conditions added — wind, a heavier fly, fewer false casts.
4. The last session is the trip-ready check, close to departure. You leave knowing what to hold onto when the shot comes.

Why three, and not one

One look tells you what is happening. It does not tell you whether the change held.

That is the difference that matters on the flats. Knowing about something in your cast is not the same as having changed it. A change made in a quiet yard still has to survive wind, a heavier fly, and a fish moving toward you — and the only way to know it has is to look again after you have worked on it.

Three sessions is the shortest sequence that can show a change holding.

What we look at

• Rod tip path, and where the loop is really coming from
• Loop shape, and whether it survives a heavier fly
• Haul timing against what the rod hand is already doing
• Tracking — whether the cast goes where you aimed it
• The stop, and what its position costs you
• How the cast holds up when the wind is not behind you
• Whether the fly and leader turn over at the distance you actually need

We tell you which of these is limiting you, and which are only symptoms of it. What to do about it is what the sessions are for.

Who this is for

• You have a flats trip booked, or you are about to book one.
• You fish fresh water at home — trout, bass, steelhead — and the flats ask for things none of them do.
• You would rather find the gap in your yard than on the bow of a skiff.

You do not need to be an advanced caster. This is most useful if it is your first saltwater trip.

What you need

A phone that shoots video, somewhere to cast, and an internet connection for the coaching dashboard. That is the whole list. We work with anglers across the US and internationally.

The guarantee

If your first session doesn’t give you something specific to work on, we’ll refund it.

Something specific means a named thing in your cast, and a recommendation for it. That is what the session is for, so it is a promise we are comfortable making. Sessions don’t expire either, so there is no clock on using the rest.

From anglers we have worked with

“…he took my casting from being a novice to being able to throw any cast I need.”

Blake offers very reasonably priced casting lessons. In just a few sessions he took my casting from being a novice to being able to throw any cast I need. Highly recommend him if you are looking to improve your casting skills and start catching more fish.

— Casey Miller, Google review

“Been fly fishing for 40 years. Now I am better.”

The big brown I could see suspended across the NZ river was just out of my reach. I remembered the lesson from Blake at Discovery Fly Fishing. I moved my hand down the grip, made the cast, and the sip of the fly was epic. Minutes later the 8lb brown was in my net. Would never have happened without the casting lessons from Blake.

— Rob Saxton, Google review