ORVIS - Fly Casting Lessons - The Bow And Arrow Cast 

*I already own the Battle II combo **enjoyable.fishing** recommend and decided to try a Fierce II combo to carry out to the pier. Works great and for the money they are hard to beat.*

and with that, my mind just blew up. I've been flyfishing for nearly 40 years and it never dawned on me you could do such a thing. This is excellent.

Well, I have gotten a hook in my finger when I first started trying this cast. What I do now is carefully grab the hook by the bend making sure the point of the hook is exposed and not covered by my index finger and thumb or grab the fly by the tail if it has one. I haven’t had a hook in my finger since. All though I think I just jinxed myself. Pete

#1 Mostly when using bow & arrow cast you're in tight quarters so shorter is easier to handle esp with overhanging trees. Softer rod is a bit easier to load for this cast #2 there are a lot of variables in terms of distance with bow & arrow. fly choice, leader length & rod length. Joe Humphreys has 1 of the best bow & arrow casts I’ve ever seen. He has a technique where he holds excess line in his hand and can bow & arrow an impressive distance. For myself the max effective distance is 20-30 ft

I was just trying this last weekend with fly rod. I did this with my spin cast years ago. Great little trick for though hard to cast areas. By the way I wasn't to successful with my fly rod. Oh darn! I have to go fishing to try it again.

this will work well on the small pond i fish. gonna give it a try this weekend. Thanks Peter and Orvis!

just bought a orvis reel at a estate sale.. LOVE IT already got 3 fish on it

Wow never seen this cast before and im 20 years flyfishing , cant wait too try it out

on my way to the ER! yay

Awesome vid Peter.

Thanks Peter ,.... I'm going to try this in Kentucky .

there are a lot of variables in terms of distance with bow & arrow. fly choice, leader length & rod length. Joe Humphreys has 1 of the best bow & arrow casts I’ve ever seen. He has a technique where he holds excess line in his hand and can bow & arrow an impressive distance. For myself the max effective distance is 20-30

excellent tip!!

..very nice demo.....!

Thank you! Just read about this random cast in the new Trout Tips book from TU. Can't wait to try it out on some nice holes I've seen that until now I've been unable to get a decent presentation to. Should also keep me from feeding flies to the foliage.

Well done. Thank you.

I've been doing this for years with my spinrods in tight mountain creeks in the woods where casting is impossible to catch brook trout. Never applied it to fly fishing but now I'm going to. Didn't know it had a name I just thought I was being clever, haha

Thank this will be very helpfull thanks

That is an interesting cast, thanks for showing. Have you ever gotten a hook in your hand from doing that?

amazing

Sooo cool

Love that cast,only cast i can do in certain places that i fish

Peter does the lentgh and/or action of the rod matter?

What do you find is the maximum effective distance for this cast?

Really enjoyed that video, thanks. In my area, I deal with overhanging branches 70% of the time. In your opinion, what type of fly line would be best suited for this kind of presentation.....floating or weight forward?

definitely didn't work that easily when i tried it last weekend lol I'm going to play around with it more and see what happens

What do you think about inverting the rod so the reel is pointing up and the rod is bending the way it was designed?

I'm going to guess this works better with longer rods. Don't think I could do this with my 6' 5wt

I know that fly rods are made to be bent and loaded but will continueously doing the bow and arrow cast wear out your rod or do any damage to it??

So I'm a little confused. Do you hold the fly or the fly line?

Would help if it showed the leader and fly/hook.

I found out about this by just messing with my fly rod, I thought I was the only one who did this.

Slingshot cast

Lol good way to hook yourself in the ear

Probably the weirdest cast in all of fly fishing by far.

Be carefull when doing this to a splitcane rod!

you have to be joking... Been doing this since i was 3. Never called it a cast. You know this isn't a cast. Stop it...