On Understanding / Line waves

Walter & Group...

The attachment, "DO YOU UNDERSTAND ?" in verse by our poet, Jerry Puckett.

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A brief note on trying to understand different teaching and casting "word pictures" and concepts :

I, too, was once troubled by the apparent dichotomy between the descriptions of what happens and what "should" happen when teaching fly casting.  This lead to my wondering endlessly, "who was wrong ?" ... and "who was right ?"

I studied the words and actions of fly casting teachers and authors who were undeniably successful in having their students achieve well controlled casts.  I taught and cast with many of them.  Some were physics based .... some poetically inclined.  Others were using the "feeling" approach of kinaesthetics.  All were using words which made sense to them.  Most disturbing to me was that it was rare for any one of them to step into the camp of the others .....I've been told by one after asking about the other, "Well, he doesn't really understand fly casting."                                                                                

 

YET ALL WERE GREAT INSTRUCTORS WHO GOT RESULTS.

 

The solution for me was this:

First I studied by thinking,  WHAT ARE THEIR DIFFERENCES ?

Now I do it by thinking,  WHAT ARE THEIR SIMILARITIES ?

Only then did I gain a better appreciation of the teaching of fly casting around the World.

Lefty told me of an experience he had when he and two or three other casting notables, all at the "top of the food chain", were all together teaching a casting workshop.  This left the students utterly confused as they tried to follow the teachings of each Guru.

One student voiced his concern over this as he wondered which expert to heed.  The logical answer :

LISTEN TO THE ONE WHICH MAKES THE MOST SENSE TO YOU.

Now, there is a lesson to be learned for instructors of these workshops when they work together : 

  Have a plan of approach well in advance of the course or workshop with a firm committment to be "on the same page".

Gordy

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Fascinating depiction of line waves by Tony Loader :

Hi Gordy,

 

Here's something Don Pendleton might find interesting: http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Wave_on_a_String

 

Regards,

Tony.

 

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Tony....    Says a lot !

 

One thing I noted is that this helps explain how I can make a series of small "vertical hump mends" as I try to gain a drag free drift of a dry fly while fishing downstream to a rise without distturbing my fly. The farther out the fly is from me, the larger vertical "humps" I can make without disturbing the fly at all as I use this method to feed line to the rise.

 

Gordy

 

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