Pick-up and lay-down distance casting competition

A pick-up and lay-down distance casting competition was held during the International Fly Fishing Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Competitors have three chances to pick-up the line and make a single cast. The first cast starting with one rod length of overhang line. In this video we see Yusaku Tsutsui, owner of Drag Free Fly

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World-Record Northern Snakehead Caught in the U.S.

Source: RUSTY DENNEN / THE FREE LANCE–STAR I guess it is bound to happen sooner or later – world record snakehead catches coming from the west instead of their native eastern countries. And one possible reason for that is because the Americans have not started eating them yet! Many snakehead species are a delicacy in

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Casting accuracy competition at the International Fly Fishing Festival, KL.

One of the competition we put together during the Kuala Lumpur International Fly Fishing Festival is the accuracy casting competition. Contestants have to cast into 5 loops, each one further than the one before, in 10 casts. At stake is one of the first Sexyloops fly rod. Casting Instructors are barred from entering, as is

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