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Walter & Group...
[GH] We have tread way beyond the intent and scope of Task 17. We'll continue the topic of casting in windy conditions, however, in order to share related information. This can also help provide background knowledge which may help MCI candidates as their depths of fly casting and fly fishing knowledge are probed during oral exams.
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[GH] Capt. Greg Rahe is a salt water fly fishing guide and fly casting instructor with many years of experience fishing windy flats in Key West, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and Ascension Bay, Mexico. He comes in with his modification of the Mulson Wind Cast :
Dr. Hill,
I think I finally have something of substance to offer. Here is a link http://www.flyfishingkeywest.com/Mangrove_Mulson_Cast.html to how I use a derivative of the Mulson cast that I call, “the Mangrove Mulson,” that I wrote almost 7 years ago and never published with photos. It is a cast I preform every day and now I teach it to all my Ascension Bay anglers. We kick butt with this cast because they end up casting aggressively and finally quit worrying about getting hung in the mangroves. Hope it helps.
How I feel when I make this cast. I want to cast vertically, and aggressively ending with a 90 degree wrist cock on my backcast, held and continued through an exaggerated arm/hand extension toward the target forward cast. Waiting until the last possible moment for full wrist rotation. So where do plant your anchor point on the forward cast? Depends. Go try it.
Cheers, Capt. Greg Rahe
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[GH] Greg,
As you know, I worked with both Tom White and with the inventor, Joe Mulson, to learn this cast... had a bit of trouble doing it well when I first read about it. Then, all of a sudden, it clicked. One of the things I had failed to do was to heed Joe's and Dan McCrimmon's advice to set that forward anchor early and close enough.
In addition, I was using it inappropriately for into-the-wind presentations as I failed to realize that the real advantage of this cast is to prevent winds from either side from blowing the line and dramatically reducing casting efficiency and accuracy.
With this cast, I now look at the waterborne rod leg of the loop as more of a keel than an anchor. This "keel" gives excellent linear stability to the cast so it stays on track to the target. Very much the way the little keel on my flats skiff provides good linear tracking when I'm poling the craft on the flat with strong winds from either side. Now THAT was something to which I could really relate !
Thanks for your contribution.
Gordy
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[GH] Perhaps one of you would like to address casting with strong wind from behind. We haven't specifically tackled that one as yet.
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