Fly casting

Bruno

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Check this guy out. Blew me away. Gotta love reports that take 20min to run !!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QhDavr24xA
 
wow! blew me away also, he is really good. did you take note though that he didnt catch anything? do you think those casts with all that water movement may spook fish?

eh, im off to go fishin, i might try a "vodoo cast " down there at the stream!!!
 
In golf they say "You drive for show, and putt for dough." In flyfishing maybe the saying should be "You cast for show, and present for dough." (Or something like that. I'm sure somebody can improve on it.)

How about "You cast for flash, and present to catch."
 
I'm not sure I see the value of the casting. The pickups, as someone else noted, are very sloppy. A couple of his casts look like standard spey casts or roll casts with some fancy loopdie loops.

It is very impressive though.
 
Anything with "loopdie loops" makes me happy.

That aside, if I didn't like catching fish so much, I might have learned some of these casts.

Now where are the trick fly tying videos?






ahahaha... I just remembered that close up of the fingers tying the fly... remember what that looked like? I'd consider that a painful trick!
 
Looks like a good start to a trip to the hospitol to get the fly dug out of an eye. I'll take the sneak and peak method anyday. :-D
 
Well, once the casts get airborn they look pretty impressive, but as noted above, getting lift off seems to roil the water some. I liked Wulff-man's comment. This is sort of akin to the guy who can cast the line and a bit of backing. Ok, really nice, but if the fish doesn't hook itself, you're pretty much out of luck. Or as Festus might say about a fancy false caster, "Ain't never seen no trout catched in the air. right, Matthew" 🙂
Coughlin
 
Good one, Coughlin! :lol:

I was thinking what's the point - it doesn't help you catch fish. But then I thought, well, it's a show of skill in handling a fly rod and line. Then again, why? So you can be like those little girls in the Olympics who twirl the ribbons all around real pretty while they tumble? :lol:
 
Thats not hard to do, but he is wearing out his arm on the pic-up..never lift your line from a high point, always lift with the rod tip down.......some of his loops are causing wind knots also... :-o

Coughlin you never caught a Bat....thats called a flying brownie... :-D
 
If I had to throw line that far (that is not casting to me) on a trout stream. I’m going back to the truck and drink a few beers. Because I know that I could never see a 24 midge with that much line out. The key for me in the video, you see him run a lot of line through the guides but he never did show how the leader landed. I’m sure most of those casts were over 60-70 plus feet but it probably looked like a pile of poop at the end. He took back a lot of line at the beginning of his throw, then the big rod movement to get more energy. IMO he had to move that much line at the beginning to straighten out the line because he had the rod to make that throw.

Joe E
 
Sandfly...
Flying a brownie 🙂 or maybe :-o

Man, that would freak me right off the water!
Coughlin
 
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