We call it catching "Limb Brim" LOL, Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Lehman To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Casting practice
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. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.12/654 - Release Date: 1/27/2007
