Hi,
This past weekend I went out and tried my hand at casting some clouser minnows on my 9' 7wt. I was casting from my canoe and the main problem seemed to be getting the fly out of the water on the backcast. It kept slamming into the canoe (I popped the tungsten eyes out by the 3 collision). Was I not retriveing enough line prior to the back cast. Should I have roll casted to get the fly up higher in the water column (I tried this a few times and it seemed to help). I was using a floating line but I plan on going out next time with sinking tip line.

Any casting tips for sinking flies and sinking lines would be appreciated.

Mike