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Walter & Group...
[GH] From Mike Duzynski responds to my comments on his answers to Ally's questions and sends a suggestion to Tom Dempsey on the aerial mend at 35' :
Hi Gordy & Group...
First of all thanks for the comment on my answer. You were right about the collision, and using right handed roll cast off shoulder.
Amazing how small changes makes a big difference in a final result. ( not only in casting).
Regarding Tom Dempsey question:
To make a nice mend(bow) at 35' ( to the right or left) while false casting 55' TRY NOT TO WATCH YOUR BACK CAST,
Do it as you practice for accuracy.
The way I do it, is to move my right foot forward and brig the rod in front of.my eyes( as per throwing darts) , and instead of putting fly to the target try to put the mend to the target.
How to create the mend you already know.
Michal Duzynski
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[GH] Mike,
Yes. If you think about it... you ARE trying to be accurate with your mend.
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[GH] From Rick Brown :
Gordy, while I am sure that others have hit on this, Vince Marinaro's, In the Ring of the Rise, also offers a solution. "Something that allows a more compact concentration of loose coils very close to the fly.'' He describes the needed cast as a bounce or kick-back cast and recommends a WF line with a very short front taper. This was his best solution until ''the day that the 'puddle cast' was born".
In the Ring of the Rise, pp. 34 &35.
best,
Rick
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[GH] Yes. The Puddle cast and variations of it are sometimes called by other names, i.e. Pile cast, Dump cast, Tower cast, Stack cast, Parachute cast, Slack leader cast, Slack line cast, Puddle mend, etc., etc.. Jason Borger opined that this was really a mend since he considered dropping of the rod after the cast as, "....the motion that makes it work is actually a mend". *
One problem with the fly casting literature is that different authors used different terms for the same cast.... AND they sometimes used the same terms for different casts. Distinction between slack line CASTS and slack line MENDS came along after most of these texts were printed.
Here are a few more examples:
Jason Borger has written that the "Bounce cast" is the same thing as the Tuck cast and the Fly first cast. *
Doug Swisher and Carl Richards wrote about a "Stutter cast" .... they describe it as what we've been calling a "wiggle mend". When they made the movements with greater and slower side-to-side movements of the rod after the cast, they called it a "Serpentine cast".
They made no distinction between slack line CASTS and slack line MENDS.
On slack line casts, they wrote:-
"These casts have a variety of names - serpentine, sine wave, shaky S, or just plain slack-line cast. It doesn't matter what you call them but it is important that you understand how they work. All operate on the principle of using more line than is required to get to the target. This extra line is distributed in a series of "wrinkles" between angler and fish and its purpose is to buy yourself more time. As the excess line is straightened and layed out by the currents, the fly has time to float drag-free." **
Mac Brown described a slack line presentation and called it a "Slack cast". His description and drawings indicate that it is what many would now call a "Wiggle mend". ***
Charles Jardine describes a "Parachute cast" …-
"With the parachute cast, the shooting line tends to straighten in the air and fold back on itself, landing in a series of "s"-shaped configurations. To execute this cast you must hit or hammer-tap the rod upward when it is in the 11 o'clock position in order to make the line shoot up in a near-vertical direction, then allow the rod to follow through. The line at the rod tip should slacken." ****
I have witnessed all sorts of "parachute" casts which have as their only commonality the rise, hover, and fall of the fly as these maneuvers have been demonstrated by various instructors.
* Jason Borger's, NATURE OF FLY CASTING...,by Jason Borger, 2001, pp.88, 188-189.
** FLY FISHING STRATEGY, by Doug Swisher and Carl Richards, 1975, pp. 26-30.
*** CASTING ANGLES, by Mac Brown, 1997, p. 168
**** The Classic Guide to FLY-FISHING for trout, by Charles Jardine, 1991, pp. 178-179.
Gordy
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[GH] Speaking of books; we have a message of praise for our member, Bob Rumpf, from George Foster. We all join in thanks for the help he has given our membership ! :
Gordy
A credit to Bob Rumpf. It is almost impossible to purchase study books relative to what we do here in Australia. Often, the postage fee from the US to OZ may be more than the book itself. I recently purchased American Fly Line by Victor Johnson and both Vincent Marinaro Books through Bob. He went to a deal of trouble to get them all and mailed them to me and has saved on postage to boot.
Hopefully others in the study group can support Bob
Regards
George Forster
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[GH] George,
We would all do well to contact Bob Rumpf to see if he can provide study books ... particularly ones which are hard to find.
Bob's email contact: caddis@xxxxxxx
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