Hi. First off, I'm new here. I did a quick scan of the site to see if this issue was addressed anywhere, either in the articles or the forum...so, I apologize if this is basic stuff. Anyway, I am getting back into fly fishing after a long hiatus. I am getting frustrated because I sometimes spend half my time on the water undoing the tangles in my leader instead of fishing. I will make ten casts with a brand-new leader, bring it back in and there will be three or four neat knots tied into it. My casting is slowly returning to presentable, but I still have this problem.

As a side note, if anybody here is an Austin, TX native and hasn't fished the San Gabriel river below the dam in San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, if you don't mind targeting small sunfish, I had a lot of success over the Labor Day weekend with #12 black/red winged ant patterns right after dawn.