How often do you use the double haul when you are trout fishing?

Almost every cast is with a single or double haul...I'd say at least 40 % each and 20% with the line just snubed against the cork and my left hand directing "body & line english" to get the fly where I hope it will land.

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Pretty much all the time unless I'm making an effort not to.

If you're correctly holding line in line hand, you're already hauling, because the fly rod moves both away and toward that hand.
This is all about using line hand to feel the rod load and unload through the line.
What's called double haul is also moving the line hand both away and toward the rod at the correct moment to modulate that power and increase line speed with little effort.
It's not even close to a crutch unless you make it a part-time trick. It's also necessary with parabolic rod tapers.
The list of crutches and bad habits using the rod hand is infinitely longer.

Squeezing the line in rod hand and "casting" is the stupid non-casting metronome thing in a River Runs Through It.
Line hand feel is probably why southpaw casters are inherently natural and non-aggressive at fly casting and haul, because they don't really have a dominant hand.

Funny you say that. I am left handed and although I can also cast (not as well) with my right I really have a problem hauling effectively with my left. It's been easier to learn to cast with my right than to learn to haul with my left.

Apart from physiological considerations it points to how challenging it is to haul effectively and how nuanced the haul can be especially when using tricky curved casts to present to trout. Interestingly what the line hand does seems more instinctive than what the rod hand does. Wondering if the rest of you have a similar experience?

Trev, the not-thinking part is exactly what fits here. We're thinking about this after the fact and trying to describe it.

On a U Tube video Lefty also said that hauling would not make a bad cast good, but it would make a good cast better.

On the Lefty videos I’ve seen, he dos not teach hauling although he does get to that eventually. He shows one woman that she can shoot an entire fly line without hauling.

This was the reason behind my question. I can haul, both single and double. However, I can make a very nice 40 to 50 foot cast with the line held by on hand against the cork. Agreed that most teaching videos show the instructor double hauling, but if I’m satisfied with a one hand, no haul cast isn’t that good enough for most fishing situations?

My OP had no sinister motive. I just wanted to know if members found a need for fishing the haul. It certainly is part of a casting arsenal, but I didn’t know how often, if ever, members used it...just wanting to improve my fishing skills. The Forum members are are great resources.

I've never seen such a cast, it intrigues me, do you let a few feet slip past your grip on the back cast to extend the carry or do you start with 30'-40' on the water or ??
I'm assuming you have the line under one finger and not held by the hand, but any shooting would seem to necessitate the line staying behind that finger for control? This line is shot from a basket or from the water?
I hate video but can you link one that shows a one hand shooting cast?

Would you double haul if you were fishing a small mountain stream with a lot of brush behind your. I would do a roll cast.

Why? please explain
Rollcast is my main platform/go to cast, but on a small mountain stream I would be inclined not to use it, a steeple cast or Galway cast would be less likely to put the fish down., I think.