Jerry: Thanks.. I'll order some of that line, print this out and take it with Me and see what happens, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry Goldsmith To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:36 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Back from California On Behalf Of Chuck Alexander Subject: Re: [VFB] Back from California I want to go to Panama City FL ASAP now that I got a car that I think will make it ..... i too, have me some big ol flies to try, and my 9wt rod and reel, but I'm wondering how in the world those guy cast into that EVER PRESENT 20-30 MPH wind coming in [] I do a fair amount of surf casting and can pass on a few tips. 1. I use either shooting heads or Jim Teeny lines. My favorite set up for casting on the beaches in east central Florida is an eight weight rod loaded with a 10 way intermediate shooting head. When the bigger fish are in. I will go with a nine or even 10 weight rod, and 11 or 12 weight shooting heads. Even with the wind in your face. The short amount of line in the air as you gather speed for the final cast helps a great deal in getting distance. 2. you really do not have to make long casts. I am constantly surprised at surf casters, who will walk into the water up to their knees and then try to cast 70 or 80 feet. The vast majority of the fish that I have caught were done by me standing on dry sand or at most an inch or two in the water and quartering my casts so that I was fishing the trough behind the first wave. Meaning that my most productive casts are no more than 40 or 50 feet. 3. if the wind is really hard in your face. You have to adapt your cast as follows. On your initial forecast do not advance the line. The only thing you want from the first forward cast is to gather a little line speed. On your back cast you can shoot line. If you are using a shooting head or a Teeny at this point, You would simply cast forward. If you are using a weight forward line, you might false cast forward again, AGAIN NOT SHOOTING OR ADVANCING ANY LINE INTO THE WIND, shoot more line on the next BACKCAST, and then complete the cast in the forward direction. 4. A. Final technique that that is easier to do than TO describe involves the same technique described as above. i.e. not advancing line, as you forward cast, only on the back cast. It also however involves keeping the line moving in what I would describe as an elliptical orbit. So you are not stopping and starting as a means of loading the rod. Rather the rod and line are kept in constant motion much as one does in Spey casting. I believe this technique is called a Belgian cast, although I'm not sure. I do know it is remarkably successful. Obviously, if the wind is hard at your back , you simply turn around, drive the forward cast into the wind, and then just sort of throw your backwards cast up into the winds and let it sail into the water. Finally I think as you try surf casting with a fly rod, you will be amazed at how many fish you catch making very short casts, just beyond the first wave break. Hope that helps JG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.19/1105 - Release Date: 11/2/2007 11:04 AM
