- A double-haul is really important, and not just in the salt
- Teaching someone new? Start with Tenkara
- Everybody needs a casting lesson. Everybody.
- Casting longer leaders
- 'Casting' nymphs under indicators
- Get a practice rod
- How to cast a 15-foot leader (and why you should)
- Casting at taillights
- The cast killer
- Your casting stroke follow joints by size
- Challenge your cast
- Great casts are the ones that get bit
- Score your casts like golf strokes; fewer is better
- The sand-save cast
- A reach cast is worth a thousand mends
- Five feet short on purpose (the linear false cast)
- Be Lefty in the salt, and Rajeff in the fresh
- Give yourself a "D"
- Beating wind
- Don't out-kick your coverage
Part 2: PRESENTATION
- Fast strip for saltwater predators
- A swirl, not a rise
- Casting streamers upstream
- Carp: Not just for city kids
- Step out of your comfort zone
- What are the birds after?
- The potato chip fakeout
- Why natives matter
- But I still love brown trout best
- Micro-drag: where you stand matters
- You'll never beat a fish into submission
- Take it to the lake
- Float tubes and garbage cans
- Food never attacks fish
- A case for the dry-fly snob
- Go Deep in the name of fish research
- Roll fish for fun
- They're in skinny water for a reason
- The cafeteria line
- The escape hatch
Part 3: READING WATER (AND FISH)
- The stripset
- Covering water
- Skate and twitch big flies in low light
- Rod tip down for streamers
- Weight an unweighted fly with fly-tying beads instead of split-shot
- Urban angling
- Get in shape. Stay in shape.
- Dry your fly first, apply floatant second
- Most fish (and some bugs) face upstream--present accordingly
- Head up, game over
- Step when you streamer
- Babysit your flies
- ID the "player" and get after it
- Gin clear water
- Flat calm water
- Developing "TSP" (trout sensory perception)
- A fish doesn't see like humans do
- Walk on
- The 10 second rule
- Like a dog on a leash
- Tip up or tip down?
- The keys to spotting fish
- The full-court press usually fails
- Use the whole spice cabinet
- River personalities and handshakes
- What the cloud layers tell you
- Knowing what they are not doing is equally important as knowing what they are
- Upwelling v. the straight seam
- The speed of the strike is proportionate to the depth of the water (in rivers)
- See this, do that
Part 4: FLIES
- UV resin in home-tied flies
- Nymphs on the swing
- Multi-purpose flies
- Sparse for saltwater
- UV parachute posts
- Tip the fly for tying parachute posts
- Caddis: the most dishonest fly ever
- Wire or tinsel for dry flies
- The "pellet fly" you can feel good about
- Practice, practice, practice
- Peacock herl ... and why it works
- The mystery of the Purple Prince Nymph
- Profile is everything
- The Adams family
- Lethal mice
- The Mole Fly miracle
- Bob Behnke on colors
- Terrestrials are opportunity bugs
- The end of the duck
- Colors change with depth
- Un-matching the hatch
- The monkey poo fly
Part 5: MISC. (Everything from gear, to fighting fish and angler ethics)
- Fly reels for trout are just line holders
- Fly reels matter for saltwater fish
- Faster rods aren't always better
- You get what you pay for
- Pride cometh before the fall
- Sheet-metal screws
- Wire for predators
- Quick-dry attire for the flats
- ABC. Anything But Cotton
- Snip your tippet at an angle
- Rod weight depends on fly types
- The best loop knot... perfection
- 7X tippet is BS
- Colors and camo above the surface
- Guitars and fly rods
- Bucket list places
- Tiger snakes and long hemostats
- It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n roll
- Score fishing like cricket
- It's okay to fail
- I cheer for the fish