Casting
Casting is where fly fishing is won or lost: the rod, the line and your timing decide whether the fly lands where the fish are. Six pieces live in this section — two references, three books you can read here, and a guide to the free ones elsewhere.
Reference FFI Fly Casting Definitions (2025 Edition) FFI 飞钓抛投定义（2025 版） Fly Fishers International's shared vocabulary for loops, planes, stroke length and the physics behind them — kept complete, as a reference. Open the definitions Technique The Double Haul: Timing, Line Speed, and the Three Faults That Kill It 双拉：时机、线速与三个致命错误 How the haul really adds line speed, the moment it has to stop, and the three timing faults that quietly cost you distance. Read the double haul Study guide The CI Study Guide (February 2025) CI 学习指南（2025 年 2 月） FFI's 63-page guide as a small site: the Five Essentials, fault identification and the teaching tasks, one chapter per page. Read the guide Book Master the Cast: fly casting in seven lessons Master the Cast：七堂课学会飞钓抛投 George V. Roberts Jr.'s short course in the basic stroke, one lesson per page, with a glossary and a troubleshooting section. Open the book Chinese edition Master the Cast：七堂课学会飞钓抛投（中译本） The complete Chinese translation 全书中文版，按章排列，插图与图注一并保留原位；术语依照本站的 FFI 抛投定义与术语表。 读中译本 Book The Sexyloops casting manual, page by page Sexyloops 抛投手册：中文导读 Paul Arden's 42-page manual: the stop, the loop, drift, hauling, the speys and every presentation cast, with his hand-drawn diagrams. Read the manual Reading list Free casting books: eight you can read today 免费抛投书：今天就能读的八本 Six public-domain originals from 1890–1928, a Gutenberg text and one Creative-Commons monograph — with notes on which to start with. See the listReach for the definitions when a term is unfamiliar, and for the double haul when you want more distance with less effort. The books are where to go when you want a course to work through: Roberts for a short structured one, Arden for the argument behind the technique, and the old free ones for the parts of casting we have since stopped explaining.