From a guy that grew up fishing the panhandle of Florida and only on rare occasions getting to fish freshwater, wind is a way of life. learning how not to smack yourself in the back of the head with a #2 clouser minnow while wading off st. george island with 15kt winds was fun........ but it made me a better caster. learning to keep the line low, increase line speed slightly, but FOCUS on shrinking your loop. A smooth cast with a smaller tight loop will outperform a guy focusing solely on seeing how fast he can go, every time.
Just returned from a very windy trip to Belize.
This is all great in practice—until a guide starts yelling at you to drop a cast 60 feet in a 35–40 mph wind.
Somehow, everything you practice goes straight out the window and chaos ensues.
Chris, chaos is fun too - hope you got a few…
Unfortunately no permit. But, I lined the $hi! out of a few.
I panicked and the wind won.
From a guy that grew up fishing the panhandle of Florida and only on rare occasions getting to fish freshwater, wind is a way of life. learning how not to smack yourself in the back of the head with a #2 clouser minnow while wading off st. george island with 15kt winds was fun........ but it made me a better caster. learning to keep the line low, increase line speed slightly, but FOCUS on shrinking your loop. A smooth cast with a smaller tight loop will outperform a guy focusing solely on seeing how fast he can go, every time.
For most of my trout casting, I find that dropping my casting shoulder on the forward cast really helps. In the salt, yeah, it's line speed.