Yeah, when I was learning to cast, my instructor said to recite a little mantra on the back cast, like "[whatever town you live in] is great". This adds time to your backcast, allowing the line to straighten out. Around my house, even the lakes are small, and dark. Usually too choked up with algae and other weeds to do very well on the surface at all. I mainly fish from the bank. The biggest bass I caught was in a little creek about 10 feet wide. It was about a five lb. fish, caught on a zonker with about a six inch tail.
On 1/27/07, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve... Good question.. Where I fish, we don't have trout, or trout streams.. I have to fish lakes in my jon boat.. and if you are right near the bank, the boat will scare off the fish..So, a long cast is what you need to NOT spook the fish as much.. I FINALLY got the hang of it though.. I was not letting it fully back load.. I was just out in the yard with a big deer hair fly on a #2/0 hook, with ten wraps of .020 lead around the head of it, and I can cast it 45-50 almost every time now.. IF, I wait on the back load,And, I cannot do it without rolling my wrist like Jimmy D..And I FINALLY got my index fanger to stay on top of the rod shaft LOL...I just had to cast and THINK about the cast, and THINK about waiting on that back load pull.. I and I'd pull in about 5-6 ft of line and cast again, letting that 6-8 ft "shoot" through the rod eyes and out the end.. Chuck ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Steve Brettell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:59 AM *Subject:* Re: [VFB] Bass Fly Line - Casting a Bass Bug This isn't meant to be a smart remark, but what's the value to really long casting? Around my area, most of the water is pretty small, and I can cast across some rivers with a 5 foot rod. I'm really trying to learn about this stuff, and improve. On 1/27/07, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks.. I have been practicing this and I am casting farther.. at least > in > the yard with a "practice" fly... My wife's car broke down, so she had > to > take mine (and it is the only one with a trailer hitch) or I'd go to the > > lake and try it out, cause it is 56 and Sunny today with just a very > light > breeze.. Thanks again, Chuck > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Spezio" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:49 PM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Bass Fly Line - Casting a Bass Bug > > > > Check out the photo I sent you. > > Tony > > --- Chuck Alexander > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Tony: Thanks, cause I must be retarded, as I just > >> cannot picture that.. I > >> try it, and the way I do it, my index finger HURTS > >> to get it on top of the > >> rod..I know I'm missing something simple in Jimmy's > >> explanation, but I can't > >> "put my finger on it" No pun intended LOL...Chuck > >> > >> -- > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Be a PS3 game guru. > > Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! > > Games. > > http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 > > -- Steve Maryland
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