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Walter&Group...
[GH] Completed our post storm cleanup, etc. I'm happy the tropical storm didn't do a great deal of damage, here. My best wishes for our friends in Louisiana and Mississippi who suffered through much worse as Isaac increased to a hurricane and cause the loss of many homes due to flooding.
I thought we'd switch gears and ask our members if they have had some particularly difficult problems to solve or, "pet peeves" as they teach fly casting. We can discuss each one and perhaps come to agreement on some effective solutions.
Gordy
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[GH] In the past we have had volumes of discussion over the concept of stopping the rod at the end of the cast. Most were of the opinion that the "stop" represented a complex series of events occurring in a brief time span which we elected to call the "stop sequence".
When teaching fly casting, the feeling was almost unanimous that using the simple word, "STOP" was entirely useful despite the fact that it wasn't exactly what happened from a physics standpoint. To try to bridge the gap between scientific verbiage and "fly caster speak", many embraced the term, "rapid deceleration".
Failure on the part of the fly caster and fly fisher to "stop" the rod (by any name) remains a problem to be solved as we teach and as we guide.
Let's have some ideas on how we can help David Edens with suggestions:
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From David Edens:
I have soooo many problems with people killing their last cast by not stopping the rod. I am snake bit by that issue and don't want early students to get into the habit of lowering their rod tip too early. I just have them back up or roll cast the slack out before starting their next back cast. When they have a reasonable forward cast, I introduce the idea of follow through---following the line down with the rod after the loop has unrolled. It is amazing to me how many anglers do not do this. The follow through is not only essential in the salt water arena, it makes a fresh water trout angler a much better fisher person---particularly when they are fishing dry flies.
David
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