Hi I've just started fly fishing today and went on a small river here in Norwich, to try and get my casting right, came home after blanking, but feel i'm having trouble getting the distance in my casting, i use a 5/6 weight 9ft rod with 6 weight, weight forward line i did have quite a strong wind coming from the right but about the best distance i could get was about 40ft is that very poor for a beginner and do you think this will improve on it's own or do you think a casting lesson would put this right, any advice would be appreciated please thanks Rod

Best advice is get a casting lesson from a properly qualified instructor, money well spent .

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but 40ft is not bad for a complete beginner. How many flies did you lose?

C

lost just the one fly but was a lot of tall growth near me, but i've just booked a lesson for tuesday afternoon Thanks Rod

If you are managing 40 ft and right handed with the wind from the right then that is excellent. As a beginner however you have the opportunity now to not pick up bad habits that will be much harder to correct years from now so having a good instructor for some lessons now would be money well spent.

I completely agree with you

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