New LOOP

Walter & Group......

Al Crise reminds us that the new Winter Loop is now ready. 

One valuable feature of the new editions is the re-printing of some of the valuable teaching articles from the past.  Some of these are classic fonts of information not only worth reading, but saving for review as candidates prepare.

Howdy FFF Instructors and Candidates

This issue of the Loop is GREAT for teaching tips.

You might want to add some of then to your notebook file. You will need to read them for next weeks study (hint)

 

The 2008 Winter Issue of the Loop is now available. The Loop Archive page
link is below
http://www.fedflyfishers.org/Default.aspx?tabid=4469

ol Al

Allen R. Crise

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From Chuck Easterling on casting in the 1930's  (On Sexyloops).   That is back when I first started fly casting. 

      Gordy

 

Good Morning,

 

On todays front page of Sexyloops there is a very interesting article by Magnus--some thing like "Another Casting Video Clip" a very interesting clip of someone casting for Hardy Brothers in the 1930's.  If you have not seen this it is well worth the look.

 

                                                       Chuck

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COMMENT: 

 

I think Chuck refers to the video clip of a 1930's caster who just might be Marvin Hedge (????).  Marvin was credited for using the double haul for the first time in tournament casting.  Of course, it may have been used by casters prior to that with no documentation of it.

 

Of course, video hadn't been invented.  This was probably taken with a 16mm film camera and then transferred to video format.  8mm film came later, to be followed by, "Super-eight".   The automobiles in the background help attest to its age.  The sepia tint may have been due to aging of the film itself.

 

  I learned to cast from my father and grandfather.  Grandpa was born in Liverpool, England .... but lived in New York in the 1930's.  He fished with Hardy tackle.  He'd never fished with Hedge, but had seen him cast many times and had tried to copy his way of casting.  Grandpa used a closed stance and no haul for most of his casting, but opened his stance and used a single haul on his forward delivery cast when trying for distance.  We never called it a, "haul"..... just something one did to get a bit more travel for the fly.  I don't recall that this pull with the line hand actually matched the length of line carried back in the 30's and 40's.  If you wanted more distance, you just pulled harder.  Sometimes the greased silk slipped from your grasp. Too hard a, "pull" gave all sorts of problems with the bamboo rods of the day.  Of course, we called them, "wind knots" and had no concept of what really caused them ...... the term, "tail" wasn't in our lexicon.

 

Gordy

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