RIO's Fly Fishing Tips Videos

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This  RIO Fly Fishing Tip focuses on the importance of practicing an overhead cast and a roll cast in order to be able to make straight line casts. Setting up a neat little "course" like the one shown in this video is a great visual to aid practice, and also keeps the practice interesting.

 This fly fishing tip shows a simple technique for practicing and mastering your back cast. All to many casters practice and pay attention to only their forward cast, but if you have a bad back cast, it is much harder to get a great forward cast. Using two trees as guard rails will help you develop an excellent back cast. 

This RIO Fly Fishing Tip is another tip that focuses on improving and mastering your back casting skills. Once you have dialed in a straight back cast, as per the previous back cast tip, the next skill to develop is to control the trajectory and timing of the cast, and this week's tip shows a great way to do this. 

This RIO Fly Fishing Tip shows why it is so important to use your wrist when making a cast - both for the back cast and the forward cast. All too many casters advise beginners to tuck the rod up their sleeve to help control the wrist, but as this video shows, this creates some serious problems for the caster.

This RIO Fly Fishing Tip shows how to learn a very useful cast called the Tuck Cast, aka the Nymph Pitch Cast. This cast is designed to make a fly land heavily on the water to quickly penetrate the surface film and sink. It also creates slack at the end of the line allowing the fly to sink before any drag hits it.

In this RIO Fly Fishing Tip Simon explains why it is so important to practice casting always using the same length of leader. Getting familiar with how far the fly is away from your fly line by using exactly the same leader length every time, ensures a far greater level of distance control when targeting a cruising bonefish, aiming at a rising trout, or trying to land your fly really close to a bank. 

 In this RIO Fly Fishing Tip Simon explains and demonstrates why you should change your stance when casting - particularly when switching from the need to make an accurate cast, to that of a long range distance shot.. 

This RIO Fly Fishing Tip shows a great way of practicing the all important Reach Cast. The Reach Cast is an essential cast to master when fly fishing in a river (especially for trout anglers), and this simple course that Simon has set up, really helps develop and reinforce that skill

This RIO Fly Fishing Tip shows how to net a large trout when fishing in a river. Pulling a large fish upstream against the current results in a lot of lost fish - either from breaking light tippet, or from the hook being pulled out by the extra current force. By pulling the fish downstream, with the current, into the net you drastically reduce the pressure on the leader or hook hold, and will land a lot more big fish.

In this RIO Fly Fishing Tip Simon shows how to make a "Catch Cast". A catch cast is a cast that allows an angler to cast the line out, then flick the rod tip and make the leader and fly jump out of the water and land in their hand. This cast is is highly useful for changing flies quickly, get weed off the hook, or for quickly checking for knots - but it does require skill and practice. 

 This RIO Fly Fishing Tip shows how to bend your fly line around a corner. This cast, known as a Positive Curve Cast, or a Shepherd's Crook Cast, is a great cast to have in your repertoire as it enables you cast to the side of a weed bed, and bend your fly line round to land in front of a fish (and not over the top of the weed bed) - just as it is shown in this video.