Tom White's videos / Tom's style changes

do you know if anyone as a video of Tom White casting or Roll casting?

These are old video's made by Tom years ago. I have promised to give them to Jim Valle.

The video clips of casting that Tom and I made in recent years could not be found when we cleaned out his stuff after we lost him.

One of them (never published or copyrighted) was of Tom making a measured dead back loop distance roll cast of 100' 3" ! (NOT a switch cast.) It was done on grass with no forward water, "stick" or anchor. Beautiful straight layout !

Natalie might have come across more of these and/or some others.

These video tapes were called:

SUCCESSFUL FLY FISHING TECHNIQUES WITH TOM WHITE Two separate tapes:

Part 1. - Beginner to Intermediate.

Part 2. - Advanced Casting Techniques with the double haul

1955 Wylie St., Vancouver,

B.C. Canada, V5Y 3n7

Tel.: (604) 874-2000

Fax.: (604) 874-5005

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COMMENTS : After I wrote to Al, I found one other :

Pacific Home Video Presents, FLY CASTING featuring Tom White

Volume I. Dry Land Casting

Pacific Home Video, 21640 Russet Ln. , Brier, WA 98036 Directed and produced by Darrell Prowse, Copyright: MCMXCV

Among video's we couldn't find was one showing Tom casting with 4 fly rods in each of his large hands at one time !!! I'm told there was one of him casting with 5 in each hand ...... but I never saw that one.

During the last 3 years of Tom's life, he changed his casting style a bit. One change was the way he flipped back the line to make a dead line loop on the ground behind him prior to the forward stroke of his distance roll cast. He had been doing it with a vertical rod plane. Problem was that with a nasty cross wind it would end up behind and to the leeward of him. He got better distance when he started using my method which was to use a more horizontal rod plane to flip the line behind and allow it to settle onto the ground. Done with practice, this can yield a narrow loop on the ground with the apex directly behind the casting arm. The rod tip pointed way back in the direction of that static dead line loop apex. After a complete stop, the forward roll cast was make with a haul almost exactly as though he was making a standard forward stroke.... but with one exception: Slightly greater smooth acceleration yielding greatest power after the rod reached the 90 degree mark with respect to the target. ( A bit of the, "no power 'til midnight" concept.)

Tom's distance cast style changed to include more, "drag" and a more pronounced, "wrist flip" at the end.

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