Fly Fishing Blog

Dayle Mazzarella offers exclusive “how to fly fish” content through the “Fly Fishing Coach International Course”. The course is an online video-based set of fly fishing lessons spanning 5 different sections of instruction. He also shares several blogs to help anglers learn to fly fish. These blogs are fundamentals taught in the lessons, but are free to anglers.

Fly Fishing Coach | Fly Fishing Curve Casts, Reach Mends, and Water Mends

For nearly every fly angler, the biggest hurdle to overcome when learning the sport is the art of casting. Fly casting requires patience, finesse, and timing in order to be done right. Bad casts mean that you’re not able to get a good presentation…

Which Fly Fishing Lines Should You Use?

Fly Fishing Lines | Understanding Fly Fishing Line Types and Applications When anglers start fly fishing, they often focus on sinking their time and money into finding the right rod. That’s understandable rods have the curb appeal few…
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Preparing for the FFF Master Casting Instructor Certification

By Dayle and Barbara Mazzarella   Dayle: I passed the FFF Casting Instructor exam in late August, 2011. It was pretty neat to have Suncoast Fly Fishers members Kirk Burton, Tom Gadacz, and Pat Damico at the West Yellowstone FFF Conclave,…
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Essentials of Teaching Fly Casting

Despite changes in distances, speeds, wind and angles, on virtually every cast, an experienced fly caster drifting down a river can throw a streamer to within inches of the bank 95% of the time, with no false casts -…