ACA's Beginner's Guide to Fly Casting: Featuring the Twelve Casts You Need to Know

by John L. Field

In The ACA’s Beginner's Guide to Fly A Comprehensive Manual for Novice Casters, John Field, tournament caster and FFI Master Casting Instructor, teaches and explains the fundamentals of fly casting, step by step. John shares the casting games of the American Casting Association and its 110 years of proven methods. This guide also includes learning tips from champion casters Steve Rajeff and Chris Korich.To begin, Field carefully lays out the essentials for getting ready, like assembling an outfit, and caring for your tackle. Next, he shows the simplest but most efficient way to start casting and practicing for results. Once you can make the basic cast, the next chapters provide the steps to achieve casting accuracy and distance. Whether learning to fly fish in fresh or saltwater, Field’s expertise is sure to have you casting like a pro before you know it.With expert instructions, accompanying diagrams and fun drills, The ACA’s Beginner's Guide to Fly Casting will help the next generation of flyfishers participate in this wonderful sport.

212 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2018

About the author

John Field is a freelance member of the angling media, a conservationist and fly-casting instructor. John has spent extensive time exploring the waters of the Northwest Territories and the provinces while on the mast of Canadian Sportfishing Magazine. He also filmed in the Amazonas in Venezuela and elsewhere, while shooting and co-producing Hunt for Big Fish with Larry Dahlberg. He has decades of experience flats fishing the Florida Keys and striped bass fishing in the Northeast. John also makes regular fishing trips to the Balkans of Europe and the Yellowstone region. He is past-president of the New York City Chapter of Trout Unlimited and past president of the American Casting Association. John is an FFI Certified Master Casting Instructor and author of the book; Fly-Casting Finesse- A Complete Guide to Improving All Aspects of Your Casting, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015 and ACA’s Beginner’s Guide to Fly Casting, 2018, and Fly Fishing for Trophy Striped Bass, 2024. John’s feature articles have been published in Fly Fisherman Magazine and many others and he has contributed to several books by other authors.