Fly Fishing School

Casting

The techniques for basic casts are taught. This includes the overhead cast, the side arm cast, and the roll cast. Additionally, such functions as mending line, proper retrieve, and avoiding tangles are taught.

Line Management

This class covers all of the essential knots used in the assembly of the line system. You will learn how to modify your leader to maximize your effectiveness in casting and outsmarting that wiley trout.

Equipment and Safety

Whether you have already acquired your equipment, or are starting from scratch, this class will provide you with some very useful tips on what to purchase and what not to purchase.

Stream Tactics, Entomology, and Fly Selection

So you have the equipment and know how to cast and assemble your line, now how to select a fly and where to cast it?  This class emphasizes the correct fly for the time of the year, and the type of stream on which you are fishing. It will show you the natural insects which are imitated with various flies, how to match your artificials to these and how to determine if the trout are dining on them.

Code of Ethics

We believe in a code of ethics and stream etiquette and will discuss these important aspects of fly fishing.

Half Day on the Stream

It is one thing to learn it, but quite another to actually use it. This half day on the stream with our experienced mentor anglers will give you a chance to use the lessons taught and to acquire additional help that you might want or need.

The Pisgah Chapter of Trout Unlimited's Fly Fishing School encompasses all the basic functions of fly fishing and is designed to put the new angler on the stream with basic self sufficiency. We draw on the experience and talents of over 100 chapter members to provide the very best instruction on a personal basis not possible in a commercial enterprise.