Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:54
AM
Group....
Let's see if you can come up with a fly casting author to match each
statement, below:-
1. Enlightenment casts. - Mac Brown ("Casting Angles"
1977) YES.
2. "I can diagnose any casting fault, just by watching the line." -
Ed Jaroworski YES.
3. " The size of the loop is determined by the distance that you speed
up and stop." - Lefty Kreh YES.
4. "Picking leaves." - Joan Wulff YES.
5. "......a white rat." - Simon Gawesworth
YES
6. It's not necessary to use a yarn fly while practice casting.
Teaches beginning students to make only back casts....no forward casts,
until they can do it well. - George Roberts
YES.
7. Originally described the "effective rod length" as the chord
subtending the arc formed by the fully bent rod. - Vince Marinaro
("Moder Dry-Fly Code" 1950) YES. ALSO
DESCRIBED IN HIS, "IN THE RING OF THE RISE."
8. Spent many years developing a boron fly rod blank. - Don
Phillips -("Technology of Fly Rods" 2000) YES.
9. Invented the, "pants over vest" modern type of ferrule used for the
majority of fly rods, today. - Should know but cannot recall
off-hand. Who? JIM GREEN. HE WAS
EMPLOYED BY FENWICK AT THE TIME.
10. Described the, "variable casting arc". - Mel Kreiger
YES.
11. Described releasing fly line in the direction of a downstream
running salmon to try to get the fish to stop or turn upstream. -
Both Schwiebert and Hewitt and probably many others before (trust me,
I'm a book dealer and history buff) CORRECT.
ALSO DESCRIBED IN, "FISH ON" BY FLOYD FRANKE.
12. Described tying flies on the stream using no vise. He
depicted a casting pattern for fishing for Atlantic salmon. - Lee
Wulff YES.
13. Came up with 22 1/2 degrees as the, "ideal casting angle". -
Frank Steel ("Fly Fishing for Trout, Bass and Panfish" 1946)
YES.
14. Touted, PEZON ET MICHELLE rods. Recommended using a Hock wine
bottle for arm exercises. Charlie Ritz ("A Fly Fisher's Life"
1959) YES.
15. Possibly the FIRST to seriously consider the essentials of fly
casting. - Bill Gammel, or his dad YES. I
SUSPECT IT WAS JAY GAMMEL.
Gordy