ol Al.....and Group,
Note my comments in BLUE, IN YOUR TEXT.
Gordy
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Crise [mailto:flysoup@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:06 PM
To: Gordy Hill
Subject: Trick castsHowdy Gordy & Gang,I have a little question. When we are practicing or our ego gets the best of us and we start showing off. We all have some "Trick" cast that we play with.Like:Tom's hand in his vest. when some one say it is his long arms.TOM DOES THIS TO MAKE A POINT. HE'S VERY TALL AND HAS LONG ARMS. WHEN STUDENTS THINK HIS SUPER CASTS ARE DUE TO HIS HEIGHT, HE SITS ON THE GRASS AND STILL MAKES SUPER DISANCE CASTS. THEN THEY CHALLANGE THE USE OF HIS LONG ARMS.....AT THIS POINT, HE STUFFS HIS ARM INTO HIS SHIRT SO ONLY HIS HAND AND SOME OF HIS FOREARM ARE EXPOSED.........SITTING DOWN, HE MAKES A 100' CAST EASILY. MAKES THE POINT THAT TECHNIQUE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HEIGHT AND ARM LENGTH TO DOUBTERS !!Gordy makes some fancy hooks and mends for bring the fly along the mangrovesI DID THIS AFTER COUNTLESS HOURS OF PRACTICE TO TEACH MYSELF THE MOVES AND DEVELOP THE CONTROL NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THIS. NO MAGIC TO IT.I can go from 50 ft of line out with out bring in the guides land the fly at 20 ft. just piling up the slack between my feet and the target.A VERY GOOD SLACK LINE CAST. NOT EASY TO DO......BUT AN EFFECTIVE FISHING CAST WORTH TEACHING AT THE ADVANCED LEVEL.Someone named Gary uses a snap cast to flip the fly in the guides,or gillies shirt pocket.THIS IS DESCRIBED IN JASON BORGER'S BOOK UNDER, "SNAP PICKUP", AS, "THE ULTIMATE IN COOL". I AGREED, UNTIL I LEARNED TO DO IT EASILY....THOUGH NOT WITH THAT KIND OF ACCURACY.....AND UNTIL I WITNESSED DEAN FLOYD START A SNAP CAST WITH THE FORWARD CAST STILL IN THE AIR, AND LAND THE FLY BEHIND HIM INTO A 20" TARGET ON EITHER SIDE, REPEATEDLY !AT FIRST I THOUGHT THIS A USELESS EXERCISE, BUT I NOW REALIZE THAT IT TEACHES THE CASTER AN ADVANCED MEASURE OF CONTROL.ONCE IN A WHILE I USE THIS SNAP CAST WHEN I HAVE MADE A FORWARD CAST TO A FISH, SPOOKED HIM, AND QUICKLY NOTE ANOTHER SPOOKY FISH COMING UP BEHIND ME CLOSE ENOUGH THAT IF I USE A STANDARD BACK HAND CAST, HE'LL SEE THE ROD AND BLAST OFF.Lefty can make some very long low cast.YES, INDEED. HE'S A MASTER AT DOING THIS. ONE OF HIS "SECRETS" IN DOING THIS IT TO USE A VERY SLIGHTLY CLIMBING, "SPEED-UP-AND-STOP" COMBINED WITH INCREASINGLY HIGH LOOP SPEED AS THE CAST GETS PROGRESSIVELY LOWER.Jeff will lob one to the other side of the county.YES. HE USES EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK TO MAKE A TRULY EXPERT DISTANCE CAST. HE'S ALSO A TRUE MASTER AT TEACHING THIS, AS HIS SUPERB WORKSHOP AT THE LIVINGSTON CONCLAVE DEMONSTRATED. I ATTENDED THIS AND FELT THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST WORKSHOPS I'D EVER SEEN.So my question is what, I hate to say "Trick casts" do you or can you do?TRICK CASTS DO TEACH CONTROL...INCLUDING OTHERS SUCH AS THE HELICOPTER CAST, OR TRYING TO FLICK SQUIRRELS ON THE GRASS AS THEY RUN ABOUT. IN FLY CASTING, CONTROL IS THE NAME OF THE GAME, AND ANY MANEUVERS WHICH SERVE TO TEACH THIS ARE VALUABLE!!ol AlGORDYAllen Crise FFF Master Fly Casting Instructor
Hawk Ridge Fly Casting School
Glen Rose, TX 76043
254-897-2045
www.geocities.com/rrdoctor