Cool casting video.
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Hey Zach I am all most positive that you did some of this casting on a video yourself. I know this because I clearly remember trying to entice you to come to Montana and give me a lesson. By the way I would still be up for that lesson! 🙂
Why don’t post that video on this thread so Matt can see what that cast is really suppose to look like.
Moosedog
I’m with Dunfly on this one…just fancy icing on the same cake that everyone else eats….I dont even know if that makes sense…oh well.
There’s definitely something humorous about watching someone do slow-mo switch casts to techno music.
Good caster though, thanks for the link.
Many of the casts demonstarted here are very usefull casts to use when fishing, so do not dismiss them all as simply demonstations of good casting and line control.
But you will have to put some time in to perfect them, and very likely be shown how to do them as they are casts that reguire both perfect line control and timing.
And in most cases you do need the influence of water to allow for these casts to be made.You may well wrap the line around your neck when you learn many of these, or tie knots in your fly line and leader configurations.
Many of those demonstrated are by the used of short lengths of line outside of the rod tip. The use of a double handed rod does allow way greater lengths of line to be used.
When Paul Arden was here with me last year, we spent a bunch of time messing with all manner of configurations of these casts, all great fun.
Davy.
http://davywotton.comWell, most seem to ackowledge there is a usefulness to the casts, but I’ve yet to hear anyone say what it is. Here’s my two cents.
The practical aspect of most of these maneuvers is to break the surface tension of the closer line so the energy of the backcast actually is able to move the end length of line. While it looks mostly artistic, it serves a very useful purpose. For most of the fishing I do, a simple role cast first helps lift the forward portion of the line off the water easier at the backcast since most of the line has already cleared the water and the energy of the backcast gets to the end of the line quicker and more efficiently.
Zach’s snake roll does the same thing by bringing the end portion of the line closer in so that roughly the same acceleration is able to propel the entire length of line on the second roll.
Davy’s absolutely right; I can judge just based on how often I use it how effective it is, and I use it every single time I go fishing.
Davy, Simon claims to have invented and named the Snake Roll in his excellent book, “Spey Casting.”
I also have a valuable copy of Hugh Falkus’ spey casting book.
Zack,
Hugh was a friend of mine, he was something else l can tell you. He could drink Scotch whisky like you do not believe, 2 bottles a day, no problem and still go fishing.
The guy was a Spitfire pilot in the war, got shot down twice, was imprisoned by the Germans, and escaped back to the UK.
He was also one of the best wild life narrators l have ever l heard, a artist and a author of many wildlife and books on fishing.He was of the old school in many ways, he could not see or wish to at times others ways of thought.
For him to catch and return a fish was not acceptable. He did not believe in playing with a fishes life that way, and to some extent when you see the results of intense catch and release such as takes place on the San Juan, in many ways l have to agree with him.
That particular river being one of the exceptions to the rule.I also have two of the hard copy limited
Hi
While the vid is fun and interesting to watch:)- and the casts are more or less usefull in real world situations- I think what is usefull to take away from the discussion and the vids – is that – fly lines/casting approaches are more maleable/dynamic and adaptive than standard overhead- back to front casting approaches might lead us to believe:)))
While the casts demo,ed may appear clever or tricky- they are nonetheless
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