I know I'm in the middle of desert Texas, but there is a spring-fed
river just south of me that's 55 degrees year round, and covered, in
places, completely with thick tropical growths out over the water. You
lose a lot of flies in there. We call it "Fly Fishing for Monkeys"!
Jack
Small package in the mail to you .
DonO wrote:
Jack,
One old memory just came to mind, and I've never recalled it until just now.
When I was a kid in La, casting the banks in thick brush and overhanging
trees (too poor to have a boat), I had only one chance to make a cast. If I
missed, the fly was hung up in 'maybe I could reach that if I had a machete'
brambles and growth, or high up in a tree. All resulted in losing a fly and
maybe leader.
So I practiced the cast as a golfer practices his swing and his putt.
Without having line out, I lined up the back-cast for angle and height and
followed through to the target point, which could have been a small pocket
in the lilly pads or the edge of a stump. I did this a number of times
until I had the motion fore and aft down, then pulled out what I thought
would be the correct amount of line, and made the cast. Missed a bit to
start with, but practice made near perfect, as I ended up catching more fish
than trees after a while. Sometimes I had to be stooped over or on my knees
in almost impossible situations. But I had to watch both the back-cast and
the fore-cast to hit both targets, and make the minimum amount of casts
possible.
The reward would usually be a nice fat bluegill.
Maybe call it 'fake-casting', as 'false-casting' is already taken. LOL
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Bass Fly Line - Casting a Bass Bug
I'm not a certified instructor, but I help them sometimes in clinics. A
friend teaches a twist that's too late for me to shake my old bad habits
on, but I recommend it to beginners. All of us learned to cast facing
forward, "Orvis" style. If its not too late, learn to cast sideways,
that is across your body. Right handed? Turn your left side to the
target. This allows you to look back and see your backcast. 'Cause
whatever your backcast is doing, that's where your cast is going. You
have the backcast under control and going straight back and a little up
with a loop that's allowed to straighten, and that's probably what your
cast will do. Pull out too soon, or add a big arc, or whatever, and
you'll be fighting all the way thru your cast. You don't have to cast
this way all the time, but be accomplished enough to check yourself
whenever you feel its not right.
Jack
Austin
Steve Brettell wrote:
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.
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