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Walter & Group...
[GH] Request from David Edens :
Gordy
I am the only CCI on the Georgia Coast that has an interest in the MCI. Are there any people in the study group from the Jacksonville area you know who are interested in an MCI that I could contact to buddy up with?
David
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[GH] For any who would like to take advantage of David's offer, you may contact him at:
David Edens <blueridgerods@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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[GH] From Pete Greenan :
Gordy & all,
Dayle Mazzarella was an exceptional candidate. His back ground is education, to the max I might add.
Not everyone needs to do all that Dayle did, but their enthusiasm for the CICP should be equal. I know that I did not go to the lengths that Dayle did, but I still had to really want to pass on the first try so I did whatever I could afford to do. And I asked, ardently asked, for help from any master I could find.
I hope all prospective candidates give it their very best effort. This credential is the epitome of teaching flyfishing. All should see it as such, I hope.
Pete
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[GH] From Jim Gill:
Gordy, This attachment is very helpful - the old adage rings true - fail to prepare is to prepare to fail. It's putting in the long hours of study and practice that guarantees success.
Regards, Jim.
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[GH] From Dayle Mazzarella, on the various reasons to false cast, in answer to steve Smith (Congratulations 3) :
Gordy,
To Steve:
I’ll bet you use more than 4! (see below) As an examiner I wouldn’t expect an MCI candidate to list all 11 (as some are related) but certainly every MCI/teacher will, at some point, demonstrate and explain the first 6 and do # 7. We all use 8, 9, 10, and 11 on occasion.
My intent wasn’t to simply pass the MCI exam but to really understand casting as it relates to fishing and then be able to efficiently pass that on to students and clients. My suggestion to candidates is that while they fish, they really begin to think about their casting in a manner that will help them achieve that goal. It might make the entire process more enjoyable and less an encyclopedic collection of facts.
Having said that, I truly believe there are many paths to becoming an MCI. My background and circumstances helped dictate mine. Everyone needs to find their own.
Dayle
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[GH] Dayle,
Let's have some fun.
...... A few interesting reasons to false cast..... some, admittedly, "way out there" :
12. Progressive increase in line speed when distance casting.
13 . Maintaining airborne loops whilst awaiting the perfect wave for a surf presentation.
14. Maintaining airborne loops whilst awaiting a pause between wind gusts. ( Same as your 10. with different words.)
15. Practicing, "Circles, Straights & Eights."
16. For trying out a new fly rod prototype.....and coming up with a rating. - (related to your 6.)
17. When trying out a new fly line.
18. Making several trial false casts to hover the fly over a target before allowing it to drop. * (Related to your 2.)
19. Here is a way out reason .... When trudging a long gravel bar in Northern Alaska, we were beset with attacks from aggressive arctic terns which nest on the bars. They would dive down and peck us on our heads. We found that the best way to keep them at bay, was to false cast short lengths of line as we traversed the bar !
20. (Old history). Back in the late 30's we used to shellac our silk lines for use in salt water. As you may imagine, that made them pretty stiff. We would make them, as well as the old stiff Gut leaders, more pliable just before fishing by making many false casts. (those old leaders had to be soaked in fresh water before use.)
21. For "flicking off" a leaf or piece of weed. (Actually, my favorite way of doing this is to false cast making slow forward casts and then "snapping" the weeded fly on the water with a well timed aggressive back cast "snatch".)
22. False casting with poor timing to demonstrate "cracking the whip" to students. (I recall a neat demo. done by Jason Borger several years ago, as he purposely popped balloons while false casting this way.)
23. For testing the turnover capability of a leader. (False casting the leader with no line out of the rod tip.)
24. I used it to demonstrate to students how false casting spooked fish as I purposely made several false casts over a school of bait fish in shallow water. Really got the point across as each false cast caused them to flush in panic !
25. "Peppering the nose of a reluctant Atlantic Salmon " * Or to tease a shark to take the fly on a salty flat.
26. Flushing unwanted fish while awaiting an opportunity to present to a different species. Fly fishing behind shrimp boats at dawn off Key West as they cleaned their nets, the "chum stream" attracted lots of small false albacore. Having caught several of these, we wanted to target blackfin tuna but the albacore were so thick and aggressive that we didn't have a decent chance to target them. By repeatedly false casting over the albacore, it would temporarily drive them off .... the tuna wouldn't spook, so that gave us opportunities to present to them.
27. Here is a WOW ....One of my guides for fishing Saratoga on a Northern Australian Billabong taught me a trick I'd never seen before. These fish were occasionally jumping up to grab dragon flies buzzing over the lilly pads. He taught me to repeatedly false cast to hover the fly over the spot where this had occurred .... and I actually caught one with the fly never having touched the water !!
28, Teaching to cast smoothly by false casting while LISTENING. Tom White taught me this teaching trick. The idea is to have the student close his eyes and repeatedly false cast while listening as he tried to cast the same amount of line smoothly enough so that he could barely hear the line go through the rod guides.
29. False casting for the purpose of studying fly casting physics. A few years ago, at the Atlanta School of Fly Casting, Mack Martin, David Diaz, Scott Swartz, Peter Lami and I did some false casting before a high speed video camera in order to study the frames as close as possible to RSP to see if we could prove that loop formation truly began there. (Conclusion was that we couldn't be certain of that because we needed more FPS than the available equipment provided).
RSP = Rod Straight Position ...... FPS = Frames per second.
30. A reason to false cast: Mr.George M.L. La Branche didn't. IZZY DID ! (A fun read.)
31. "Wowing the troops" at fly shows. Tom White would false cast with 4 fly rods in each of his large hands. He would amaze the audience as the casting cadence and loops matched perfectly. THEN he'd do it by alternating .... back casts with one hand matched by forward casts with the other ..... and vice-versa !!
32. Getting in shape for Spring fishing. Floyd Franke visited me a few years back in March. The day before we went out in my skiff, he went out on my dock and made many false casts. His reason? "To get rid of my winter arm."
33. Similar to 32. A good idea for a Master Candidate to do to "warm up" just prior to taking the performance exam. (Done in moderation.)
34. Practicing loop speed changes for exam tasks which require false casting in rod planes from vertical to horizontal on either side of the caster.
35. Once in a while, I make some false casts for the funky reason that its FUN.
Perhaps there may be a few other reasons which neither of us have considered.
* Joan Wullf's FLY-CASTING ACCURACY, by Joan Wulff, 1997, pp. 47, 48.
Gordy
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[GH] From Mike May:
My advice-get a 7 weight rod (the examiners were surprised I didn't have one) -having crashed and burned once this is a definite asset. The distance cast is a bunt with a fly rod of this weight and the other casts are easier if you find yourself in inclement conditions with 40 knot wind gusts during the exam as I did.
The oral is fairly straight forward -use the questions and answers in study guide and embellish them with additional information.You cannot read and study too much. My favorite was "Casting Angles" by Mac Brown. Knowledge is power.
For those of you able to access other CCI's use them to watch your form and provide input. Video tape yourself and formulate corrective actions to improve,
I hope this helps-I remain a humble MCI candidate-
Mike
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[GH] Mike,
One good reason to use the 7 wt. outfit is so both you AND THE EXAMINERS can see the fly line well as the casts are performed.
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[GH] Next... Back to Slack line presentations.
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