Mark; I wish I could... but for a while.. I am gonna be going to the doc several times a week..I have had three bulging discs for yrs, but they are getting worse, and now, about a month ago. I woke up, tried to get out of bed, and my right hip gave out from under me, and I hit the floor... And have done that several times since... I had it X-rayed and they said no fractures, or dislocations, and I went last Thursday for a spinal epidural, but had been taking aspirin for the pain cause nothing else would help it, and they cannot do an epi within 72 hours of taking the last aspirin... So, I have to be there this Thursday at 1pm of another try... Then, he is gonna do a CT scan.. and if that don't show anything, an MRI will follow..Anyway.. I HOPE they get me some relief SOONER, rather than later, cause right now I can't even drive the two miles to my fav "Honey Hole" so my wife has to drive me there... It's weird, cause sitting in my boat seat.. I can't even feel the pain at all. But, soon as I stand up, or walk, or climb steps... Ouchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I'd LOVE to visit that area, cause I haven't been that way since I was a teenager... and I hear the Catskills are Magnificent... I LOVE the mountains, which is why I never plan on moving off Mt Cheaha where I now live....Do you have trout there??? I suppose (hope) you do right??? I LOVE Blue Gill fishing, but I remember when I did do some trout fishing at different places while in the Air Force, It was GREAT... Anyway. Let me see what the doc says after this week, and then I'll know better if the thing can even be helped, and if so, what needs to be done, etc etc ... Than I'll let ya know something for sure.. Thanks a million, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "mark romero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Chuck- casting > 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: <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >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: <[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 > > > >
