WHAT AFTER ? / DUMP CAST

Walter & Group.........

From Dusty Sprague :-

Excellent points below.....

 

Regarding the 'whats next'....Gordy says it very well.....I can only add emphasis to his points that we look to master instructors to take a very active role in all aspects of the program.....attendance and presentations at gatherings, teaching, mentoring, testing, writing for the LOOP, and committee work.  Those who contribute and indicate an interest in becoming a member of the board of governors are the ones elected to the board as present board members retire. 

 

Dusty     

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Please take note of one element I forgot  which he has added:

 

THE WRITING OF ARTICLES FOR THE LOOP !  

 

Articles from Masters are valuable as we teach one another on an ongoing basis.  Same is true of articles from CCI's who have special knowledge and expertise.

 

This helps us all remain current.

 

Gordy

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As an aside:   Here is something I just learned from Al Crise. (Case of a mentor learning from his mentee.)  Perhaps many of you already knew this.

 

In much of the fly casting literature, the DUMP CAST has been considered just another name for the PILE CAST, eg. PUDDLE CAST.  In his old videos made many years ago, Tom White referred to a DUMP CAST as he demonstrated what we now call the SNAP CAST. (Forerunner of the snap-T of Spey casting.)

 

Al told me he uses the term DUMP CAST to mean a kind of pile cast ..... not for dry flies, rather for weighted nymphs, Clousers, etc.  The idea is to do the cast much the same way one would do the pile cast, but timed and directed so that the weighted fly falls where needed..... say in pocket water, and then the leader tumbles down upon the fly allowing quick and unrestricted sinking of it.  (low trajectory back cast, high trajectory forward cast; then rod fade (drop the rod downward.)

 

An alternative to the TUCK CAST.

 

Here is his message:

 

Howdy Gordy

 

When I ask for a 'dump cast' I would like to see the Slack Line land on top of the Fly.

I would use this where I wanted the fly to sink down in the water column. i.e. a clouser in to the Gut coming off the flat.

On the CCI test it asks for a Dump cast with a slack line presentation  that is the slack from the pile to the rod tip should have slack in it too.

 

I look at this task as two things happening a puddle over the fly and waves from the pile to the casters rod tip.

 

ol Al

Allen R. Crise
FFF-Master Casting Instructor
Hawk Ridge Flycasting School

 

Gordy

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