WISH LIST / Grant on the SWITCH CAST

Walter & Group :-

While awaiting more responses on the VARIABLES topic :

Denise Maxwell as requested some important informtation for the FFF Website Committee.  This from her letter -

 

"...........The Casting program part of the FFF web site still needs improvement and I am trying to plan something but need some input.

Perhaps this is a topic for the study group ? what would you/they like to see as part of the casting portion of the web site?  If they had a wish list, what would be on it?

Denise "

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Along with the Wiki which I hope to see as an on line FFF "living encyclopedia" in our future, we need to upgrade the casting portion of our web site.

Denise and I would very much like to have you think about this, look at the present material on the site and answer her question:-

 

QUESTION:   WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AS PART OF THE CASTING PORTION OF THE WEB SITE.  IF YOU HAD A WISH LIST, WHAT WOULD BE ON IT ?

Gordy

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                                                Alexander Grant on the SWITCH CAST

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For you Spey buffs and our History geeks .... and in consideration of the addition of the SWITCH CAST to the latest version of the MCCI exam, please note the attachment from Ally Gowans.  This is his explanation:-

 

At my instigation BBC are going to make a program about Alexander Grant. During research I read a letter from Grant (Feb 1934) to Donald Rudd (Jock Scott) referring to copy describing the switch cast that Grant was sent and asked to approve, which he did. Then I found the copy that was referred to, it?s also in Seatrout Fishing by Jock Scott and I?ve reproduced in the attached pdf for your interest. I think that there are a few lessons in it!

Followed by :-

Hi Gordy,

 For the sake of authenticity I have scanned the letter from Grant to Rudd to which sections of the text previously sent was attached by Inverness Museum and marked the part relating to Grant?s approval. This was copied from the book previously mentioned, Seatrout Fishing. Rudd?s book devoted to Grant ?Fine and Far Off? was published in 1952 but Grant read and gave the book his blessing before he died in 1942. After meeting and befriending Grant I think that almost everything that Rudd subsequently wrote about Spey type casting was based on Grant?s methods and most of it I suspect with Grant?s approval and guidance. Rudd was not the only person to seek Grant?s knowledge the late Capt T L Edwards to whom I have previously referred in correspondence was one of many experts who did so.  

 

I nearly sent you this letter of Grant?s when you told me that you were going to doing something on casting physics at Marlborough because there are some interesting comments on the second page that you may have wished to explain!

 

I?m hoping that the BBC researchers can uncover more about Grant and especially wish that they might find some film archive of his feats. What a pity he is not around. I think that he would be a keen member of your group!

Best regards,

Ally Gowans

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