Walter & Group....
Jim Bass sends news about Al Crise:
I have just been
informed that on June 6th at 6:00PM Al will be inducted into the Texas Fresh
Water fishing Hall of Fame.
I thought you would like to know.
Jim
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Jim... GREAT ! Thanks for sharing that information with us. Gordy
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Master exam - more
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Description of the essence of the Master exam based upon personal experience from Jim Valle :
Gordy
and Group,
Re:
MCCI Tests
Gordy
and Ally?s emails got me thinking about my experiences? taking, passing and now
examining?.
I
also include this to give perspective because I personally believe it is also
our responsibility to train our Masters to be Examiners.
To
be honest I always felt my exams were conducted fairly. I thought I was
prepared, and I was by my perception ?. I certainly worked hard enough and knew
the facts? However from a candidates point of view I walked away saying to
myself ?What the #$%@ do they want? (When you work this hard at
something, No One accepts a negative outcome with open arms.) I had my notes
from the debrief which I understood ? I was focused on what I considered minor
casting corrections, (I thought they were trivial, nit-picking etc.) but I never
really understood the ?You have some More Work to do.??. What Work?
When
I finally passed I knew it was due to the ?Confidence and Understanding? I
had developed. My attitude was different. I enjoyed the game and welcomed more
difficult questions and challenges. It was a great contest to
win.
However
as an examiner now I can give a different perspective on the issue.
Casting.
There are good days and bad days, we all have them. I have seen better casters
and worse casters. As an examiner you take all that into account. The
candidate can either make the casts or not, you can tell. (no different when
each of you is giving a lesson you can tell if your student has the concept or
not)
Knowledge.
Again the core stuff, it?s either there or it?s not. It becomes very evident if
it?s not there. I make it a point to ask enough questions to find the depth and
give the candidate every opportunity to validate their hard work?. (an important
part of the experience for the candidate, Failure to challenge a professional is
an injustice, like a mountain climber getting a helicopter ride to the top of
the Mt Everest? just not the same achievement)(could be a huge achievement for
the pilot! J)
Teaching
and Communicating. It is one thing to have a teaching presentation that
adequately explains how to make the cast. That?s part of it, but here is the
real bottom line which develops into a common thread throughout the exam ? How
does the candidate use his knowledge and teaching skills to listen to a question
and respond. Thinking on his or her feet. This is the demonstration of the
candidates true ?Total Understanding? of fly casting, teaching and fishing. This
is where the ?You have a little more work to do? resides. The only way to handle
these situations is to have the teaching experience. The ability to Listen, Hear
and Answer the (student?s) questions which can come from any direction. It is
actually a simple thing, but it takes confidence, understanding and
knowledge to get there.
As
an examiner I listen to the questions other examiners ask. Do you think they are
made up? No, for the most part they are based on real questions and situations
they have been in and had to answer themselves as instructors. And this is
really important!...There is NO ONE CORRECT ANSWER. (It?s all up to the
candidate at this point). There is an art to teaching. There are many
approaches. The Master will, using his experience answer the question with
his/her well considered conviction on the subject. (That means he thought about
this before.)(EXPERIENCE) He has every part of the cast in his head, and made it
his own. (You must truly own the information) Now we all may have different ways
of saying something but the truth remains the same, the fundamental common
threads will be in everyone?s answer.
This
is the ?More Work? or Experience that can seem elusive until you view it
from the other side. A Master is just that a ?Master?. In
actuality those that pass the Masters are Masters before the exam ever starts
and they remain Masters as long as they continue to pursue the
?Understanding?. The exam is nothing more than a progress check
ride.
Hope
that adds some perspective,
Jim V
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Jim... That wording, "progress check ride" I'm sure comes from your flight training back when you flew military jets during the Viet Nam war ! Gordy
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LOOP SHAPES
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From Bob Hansell :
Gordy and all,
I am
working on better understanding "reading the line" as part of my
preparation for a masters certification and more importantly to be able to
teach. I will start out by saying I am in the learning process and do not
profess to know yet. So, I am going tell you what I think so you can tell
me how much more I have to learn or if I am on the right
track.
The loop shape has many factors, so
I will key off of Mac's comments on using a tension lens for the descriptions.
First I think the tension on the rod leg of the line creates the tension
of the loop itself. Tension on the fly leg of the line maintains the loop shape.
So I would suggest the tension is pretty equal on the first shape Loop A,
The shape of loop B would be caused by the tension on the rod leg of the
line being greater than the tension on the fly leg of the line therefore pulling
the loop down into the rat face shape. The opposite would be the case for
Loop shape C where the tension of the fly leg of the line is greater than the
rod leg of the line causing the point to be pulled up. Loop shape D is different
and I suspect the tension on the Rod leg and Fly leg of the line is fairly
similar but the forces that cause a line to fall are not as great as the forces
that are lifting the line.
I do not
know if I am correct, but I throw it out for discussion. Especially on
Loop shape D where this is just a guess on my part.
Not afraid of being wrong if I can learn.
Thanks,
Bob
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From Jim Laing. (I placed his drawing in an attachment). G. :
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Hi Gordy,
I'm attaching a drawing to clarify my last message and would also
like some feedback from MAC - I can make the box shape with 30 to 40' of
fly line. The longer the line, the more difficult to maintain that
shape for some reason - higher linespeed?
My thought is that if you can make a box (see drawing - C), you
should be able to make that snow plow shape (see drawing - A) - but I
think its going to be much more difficult because the tip has to continue
to travel forward on that sharp downward angular plane as MAC
illustrates. As I understanding this, the "rat snout" has
a slightly curved more gentle downward slope as drawing B
illustrates. I don't see any references to these shapes in
"Casting Angles" - can you clarify?
Jim |
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Bob & Jim...
I'm not the expert on how to make these loop shapes or to discuss the concept of how tension is used to do this. I will say, that the tension way of explaining them does make sense to me, though I'm new to it.
So I'm here with you to learn.
Many thanks to Mac Brown for helping to teach this to us all.
Gordy
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