LEAVING / One last message

Walter & Group........

I'm just about to leave for my long drive from the Florida Keys to Nova Scotia.  Thought I'd get these messages off, however, before hopping into the GMC which is crammed with fly tackle.

Back on the Study Group in about 4 weeks.

Gordy

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From David Lambert on teaching kids:-

Gordy --

Re: teaching kids to fly fish.

No one did it better than Phil Genova of Cortland. He was a willing and

valuable mentor in the 90s. His full manual and course curriculum are

generously offered gratis from TU in .pdf downloads.

<http://www.tu.org/site/pp.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=404569> (Caution: Big

downloads for people with dial-up)

He taught this course at Cornell and at elementary schools. It's

suitable for high schools, 4-H, Boys and girls Clubs, etc. This is the

blueprint for teaching high school fishing courses as a sport activity.

David

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From Gary Eaton (on the arial mend tasks for the MCCI exam) : -

Gary Eaton (sent via imaginationcubed.com) has sent you a drawing from Imagination Cubed with this message:

"Top one should be 15 ft not 25 ft. Question is what qualifies as a passing layout on the MCCI? Should I be prepared to give large mends to one examiner and "hug the cone" for another?
With 55 feet of line minus 16.5 feet for rod and leader< I think the geometry of a wide. 6 foot mend at 35 feet becomes impossible.

Thanks,

Gary"

Click this link to see a drawing come to life at Imagination Cubed:
http://www.imagination3.com/LaunchPage?aFileType=&_nolivecache&aDrawingID=20070910_110105628_776793869_usa&from_email=doubledok@xxxxxxxxx&from_name=Gary Eaton&to_email=charles.easterling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,t.vitale@xxxxxxxxxxx,masterstudy@xxxxxxxxxxx,jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&to_name=&_lscid=184982417 .

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Gary:   The task on the revised MCCI exam reads this way: 

 

5. Present the fly while placing an aerial mend at 15 feet.  Casting distance approximately 55 feet.  Mend may be to the right or left at the examiners' option.  Hauling permitted.  Repeat with aerial mends at 25 feet and 35 feet.

 

My comments are these : 

 

 CBOG members are agreed that we will not ask a candidate to complete a casting task that we cannot do well ourselves.

 

 

Note that the casting distance is approximately 55'.  I interpret this to mean that you would cast as though you were trying to reach a target at the 55' mark from the caster as you place these mends.

 

While this is not stated on the exam format, I'd expect a candidate to easily place a 6' mend on either side of the 15' target.  I'd accept a mend of 3' - 4' at the 25' mark and a 2' - 3' mend at the 35' mark.  Other examiners might look at the size of the mends differently.

 

It is not impossible to place a 6' mend at 35'.   My way of doing it is to make the mend early, (immediately after the stroke...right after the stop) and shoot the whole thing out to about 55' with the mend at the 35' mark.

 

Frankly, I can rarely place an actually measured 6' mend at that distance, though smaller mends are not difficult to place there or even at 45'.

 

CHALLENGE:  LET'S SEE HOW MANY OF YOU ARE WILLING TO GO OUT AND SPEND SOME TIME ACTUALLY TRYING TO PLACE A MEASURED 6' MEND AT A TARGET 35' FROM YOU WHILE CASTING OUT TO 55'.  IF YOU CAN DO IT, SEE HOW MANY TIMES YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS OUT OF 10 TRIES !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Send your messages with the answers of your own true findings to me and I'll scratch my head over them so we can discuss it when I return in late October. At that time, we'll have sessions on the tricks of making various mends at varying distances.

 

Best to send those messages to my other address:  hillshead@xxxxxxx

 

Gordy