{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Looking to trade info/instruction/trips

Casting style interests me for sure.  There have been some good articles written about it to boot. 

This is a good one of a guy demonstrating both of the most common styles (front elbow vs. side elbow) -- http://midcurrent.com/techniques/casting-the-elements-of-style/

Gary Borger has an article about wrist casting -- http://www.garyborger.com/2012/11/24/modern-casting-i-wrist-casting/

Another proficient "wrist" caster is Ian Colin James.  Watch any video of him fishing on youtube and you'll see it right away. 

I use a fair amount of wrist, as evidence by my tendency to get wrist soreness when making long "SW" casts all day with an 8-weight. 

I think many people tend to teach newbies to use little or no wrist because many newbies may have a tendency to use far too much wrist, so the instructor is trying to compensate for that.  In practice though, I don't think style is really all that important. 

I use a side-elbow style with moderate wrist, but I tend to (like many if not most people) use a much more vertical roll cast to keep from having too much fly line set on the water at anchor. 

Reading books is great, but a lot of the "experts" are flat wrong about certain aspects of casting...which is surprising since they often have had their entire lifetimes to think about it. 

Gene

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 8:53:19 AM UTC-4, namfos wrote:

Gene:

I still think you should blog. But after reading this, I think you should start doing stand up comedy at gatherings of 3 or more fisherpersons (that's you, Beth and whoever's willing to stick around ;-).)

Mark

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