Heavy flies, Down low

Weather was calm for a few hours yesterday and I dragged the kayak into the yard to practice with a big, fuzzy hunk of yarn and a tiny split shot - and I nearly needed the kayak to be out on my sad, soggy lawn.

Got to where I stopped getting tailing loops and piles of fly line next to me on the ground and was making consistent 30 foot casts, but without much accuracy to them.  Finally felt I could cast consistently to a spot inside a 15-foot circle and started trying for 40-feet...

I didn't fall out of the Tarpon, and didn't smack any part of myself.  Casting wasn't great, but the fishing was amazing.  On my second attempt to fling the yarn 40-feet, I caught an 8-foot yucca tree suspended in a lie that's 30-feet to the right of my 15-foot target area.

It was a monumental struggle between me and the tree until it started raining and I had to break off...  Fair hooked or foul, the yucca had a hell of a grip on my yarn.

It was better to sit in the kayak to practice, Scott.  As bad as it seemed, I was still doing much better than I had been when kneeling in the lake.  And my knees liked it more, too.

Thanks!

Congratulation! Your getting there, keep taking the baby steps and before you know it you'll be off and running.

I've got a pa 12, so I mostly stand when I cast, but than I'm fishing mostly freshwater. Where I've been forced to sit and cast my solution has been to shorten my back cast, trying to stay slightly forward of the 12 o'clock position. Good luck, and nice job on the yucca, I've been trying to catch one of those on a fly rod for years, all I can usually manage are some scrub pines

John