Walter & Group....
A couple of important messages on casting heavily weighted flies came in just after I had already sent the last one to you.
From Peter Morse:
Gordy we use a lot of big heavy flies for barramundi and a native
freshwater fish called Murray cod - these grow to over 100lbs and part
of their diet is ducks. Both these species favour living in snags and
for me water hauling is a critical part of casting big heavy flies
accurately into cover. It controls the line, gives you plenty of
tension - a couple of slaps on the water on your forward cast to get
your bearings and range, then shoot the fly into the cover (good snag
guards on the fly are essential). I also use this for fast sinking
shooting heads with big flies, especially when fishing from a boat and
there's a couple of you on board.
Peter Morse
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Peter.....
Yes, indeed ! The water haul is one good way of doing it. Thanks for remembering that.
Gordy
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From Mark Sedotti :
Hi Gordy,
On casting heavily weighted flies.
You
cast a heavily weighted fly the same as you cast ANY fly. With a tight loop, and
using the exact same technique, marrying all the good technique with good timing
that you can.
The one thing a heavily weighted fly does, as does a
very large fly is that it amplifys what you do wrong (or not well enough,
technique wise) as well as what you do right or well. The more unruly the fly
the more you have to be "spot on" with your technique or timing. That's
all.
For the most part, you have to practice casting a heavily
weighted fly, or a very big fly to cast it well too. You have to "do it" to do
it well.
For a person who REALLY has trouble. open the loop, and
perhaps that oval cast, suggested before, is good too. In reality that person
has to practice his, or her basic casting technique. That will help them A LOT
more.
In the case of flies themselves. A heavily weighted fly can
be designed to cast surprisingly well. My giant flies are VERY heavy, but cast
well because they have just the rigfht amount of weight in them to counter the
drag of their wind resistent materials whan cast. or you could say, just the
right amount of wind resistent materials. I cal this a "weight balanced" fly.
When you do thid with any fly it casts well.
Thge problen with many
"heavy" flies is that they don't have enough wind resistent materials in them to
counteract the heavy weight. They're far off of being weight balanced,
consequently they are VERY tough to cast. Sometimes you just can't add extra
materials because it takes away from the function (like a haevily weighted
sparse Clouser, or perhaps a crab) or the look of the fly. Then you have to
depend on good casting technique to take you along. I mean, that's why you
practice your casting. To cast the "marginal" flies better, or to cast them at
all.
regards,
Mark
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Mark....
Yes. You taught us the principle of WEIGHT BALANCED flies a while back.
I've seen you cast the largest/heaviest flies imaginable without resorting to wide or open loops, water hauls or elliptical casting. I can only imagine how much practice time you have put into this !
Most of my heavy flies can't be balanced for the reasons that you mentioned .... even so, I can make my forward cast with a fairly tight loop and lots of loop speed with no problem. As you say, this takes lots of practice. Reason ? .... You must get your timing, especially with regard to the prior back cast perfect before you can make that cast. No room for error !
I included an attachment on your casting.
Gordy
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