Walter & Group...
Have a look at the attachment. All I can say is that I'm happy not to have been fly casting from that beach near Tonga !
Gordy
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I made the assumption that Caroll Hall was a woman..... now I stand corrected . My apologies !
This from Al Crise & Carroll :-
From Peter Morse:
Gordy,
for the life of me I can't work out how you could make a reach
cast/mend prior to RSP (so that its part of the stroke leading up to
RSP).
Could someone please explain this?
thanks, Peter
Morse
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Peter,
This deserves another visit. Confusing to many ! Let's go into detail :
Phil Gay pointed out the fact that he used the reach cast on a daily basis ..... not a reach mend.
Perhaps he'll help us with this one.
My own comments:
I can make a reach cast by starting my forward stroke and as this progresses, I sweep my rod top to the side while the rod is still bent. By the time my rod is at RSP and the loop formed, my rod tip is way out to the side. As I understand him, this is the way Phil does it. (I'll add that he's a much better trout/stream fisherman than I'll ever be.)
Now that isn't the way I usually make the reach, because my preference is to make a reach mend....ie. making my cast, then after RSP and loop formation, make the mend by repositioning the line as I make my sweep out to the side.
The cast is made prior to RSP. The mend is made afterward.
Ref:
1.) The oldest writing I could find is : FLY FISHING STRATEGY by Doug Swisher and Carl Roberts, 1975. pp. 30-35.
Quoting from p 31: "To accomplish this left reach cast, throw a moderately powered backcast in the horizontal plane and then come forward with a wide but firm loop. Keeping in mind that the line will go where the rod tip goes, slowly, but with accented, full-arcing wrist action, "paint" your rod tip along the full length of the imaginary line. Your casting hand should sweep across in front of your body at a 45 degree angle with your thumb on top during the entire stroke. At the conclusion of the cast, you should be leaning and reaching as far as possible to the left with the rod tip almost touching the water."
Some have said that Doug Swisher "invented" this cast. I'll never know if that is true or not. I also don't know if he and Carl Richards were really the first to describe it in print.
It was Doug who taught me to do this cast years ago. (Despite that, I found it easier to do the reach mend.)
2.) Jason Borger's NATURE OF FLY CASTING, 2001, p. 85 (As he describes a "Reach module" ..... reach move made after the cast ie. what we would call a reach mend.) Then, p.259. Here, Jason goes into detail differentiating between reach CASTS and reach MENDS. I quote: "Reach Casts are typically done in the right and left directions. Instead of reaching after the cast has been made, though, the rod is reached DURING THE CAST ITSELF. This results in the line AND fly being re-aimed simultaneously.
Basically all this skill calls for is moving your arm laterally as well as forward during Phases One and two........."
Both references have explanatory diagrams. WORTH READING !
Also: CASTING WITH LEFTY KREH, Lefty Kreh, 2008, pp. 162- 174. Lefty does use the term, Reach cast. However his text describes making the reach after the "speed-up-and-stop", so most of us would call that a reach mend or a reach cast-mend. Quote from p 166: "The moment the rod tip speeds up and stops, the rod starts to lay over."
His photos are of world class quality as he shows correct and incorrect ways of doing this.
Another way of getting that line upstream is to simply reach way out to the upstream side and make a side-arm cast. I suppose somebody is going to call that a "reach cast" (???????) There, one makes the reach before the cast.
Gordy
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