Extending the Cast
In learning to cast, the novice should, from the beginning, learn to use his left hand to hold and manipulate the line stripped from the reel. To extend the cast the caster merely lets go this stripped line near the end of the forward cast and it " shoots " through the guides or, if he learns a high back cast, he can pay out some of this line on the back cast like the dry fly fishermen do it. This is repeated until the desired length of line is out. From this it will be seen that the big difference, from the fishing standpoint, between bait casting and fly fishing is that the fly caster fishes the near water first.
