1. The Thank You School Bus Drivers poem (below) is the cover of a FABULOUS Thank You Book that will be dropped off for the bus drivers to keep in their meeting room.
Attach the fly reel to the fly rod using only the butt section of the rod if it is two pieces or more. Take the tag end of the backing and run it through the rod guides and attach it to the reel spool or arbor with the appropriately named arbor knot. To do this, first make a basic overhand knot around the line.
1. Strip off about 20 feet (6 meters) of line from the tip of the rod and lay it in front of you. While in the other forms of casting, you're casting a bait or lure, in fly casting, you cast the line in a manner similar to cracking a whip with a weighted tip. If, even with practice, you find using a fly rod too difficult, you can also cast flies using ultralight spinning gear and water-weighted bobbers. 2  Use the casting techniques described in How to Cast Spinning Tackle..