Re: [VFB] Chuck- casting

[mark romero]

Chuck, i have no idea where you live........but if you can get the time to 
get up here to the Catskills, (fly fishing Mecca), you ought to scrape 
together the bread to take a course at the Joan Wulff school. My wife and i 
have taken the classes, and graduated the insturctors course as well, so if 
you don't have the bread for her school, you can afford us, lol. And if your 
broke, i'll help you for free. Just get here. mark.....

From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <vfb@troutnet.com>
To: <vfb@troutnet.com>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Chuck- casting
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:30:39 -0600
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: <vfb@troutnet.com>
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