Catching Big Fish.

Some fly fishers can and some just can't. It's not about making long casts on a casting pond it's knowing how to get into position and make accurate presentations on moving water. It's also knowing how to read the water so if you are blindly fishing you are indeed fishing to places that hold fish. After a while you will be able to understand where prime holding lies are on the river and begin to pick up bigger fish. Your rigging and knots are also important. If you do see a big fish feeding, peel the line you need off your reel first. If you need thirty feet of line than peel it off and cast your rod somewhere else other then over the fish. Don't false cast over the fish to build up line speed. The biggest mistake is not being ready when you do hook a large fish. Sometimes people get there fly line raped around something, say there reel for instance, and the fish runs and breaks them off.
What I also see people do is when they hook a big fish they have no exit strategy. You need a place to land the big fish you just hooked especially if your in heavy water. A lot of big fish you need to chase down river to recover the line the fish just peeled off your reel and land him in a calm area. I sight fished to these fish today and they all took my Jesus was a Carpenter Ant on the FIRST drift. You don't get many second chances with big fish so make your first drift count.