Don: Thanks.. Yeah, I do cast almost straight overhead, out to the side just enough to miss my ears LOL, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Chuck- casting > Chuck, > > If you cast straight overhead, then the belly (barb) will be in the vertical > up position, like you do. But side-casting allows the loop to lay out to > the side, and by the time the loop straightenes out, it is below the main > line. The cause for wind knots is getting the 'point of the barb' (the fly > and end of the leader) through the loop before it heads forward, effectually > tying an overhand knot in the leader. > > Just like hand-retreiving or reel retreiving, casting must be adjusted to > the conditions we're fishing in. If the wind is from the right, I cast over > my left shoulder or with my left hand to avoid wind-knots. If distance is > the key, then I side-arm cast. If I have to punch a fly into the wind, I > use Borger's 'hatchet-chop' style cast. I still have yet to master the > saltwater shooting leader system- JerryG has to give me more lessons on > that. > > Casting can be as utilitarian as dropping a fly behind a bolder on a trout > stream, or it can be raised to an art form like FFF master-casters can do > it. > > DonO > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:13 AM > Subject: Re: [VFB] My Tom Nixon book arrived!! > > > > This also brings out a question I have... When I cast my flyrod..I'll try > to > > explain it since I didn't know if we are allowed to put in attachments to > > emails here.. When I stop at the 1 o'clock postion, before the line loads > > and starts to cast back forward.. If you took a snap shot of the line at > > that point, it would look like a long shanked fish hook with the gape and > > barb pointing UP.. But in one of those books I checked out at my local > > library, in that same snap shot (in the drawing in the book), the line > looks > > like a long shank hook with the gape and the barb pointing towards the > > ground, right before the line loads, straightens out, and comes forward > with > > the cast..(In other words, in the book, the line loads from an under then > > over position, but I load mine from an over then under position) Make > > sense??? Am I casting wrong???? Thanks in advance to anybody who may be > able > > to answer this.., Chuck >
