From: "jerry goldsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Casting was: [VFB] Fishing report Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:56:46 -0400LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! Do me a small favor...explain the peach method DelWhat Kreiger suggests you envision is to imagine you have a peach on the endof a small stick. And you are trying to flick it off. You would obviously have to stop on a dime to get the peach off the stick. Mark already mentioned the extreme importantance of the....... THE STOP-- The absolute most common mistake I see people make is the stop. Strangely;a lot of people have a better stop on their backcast than on the front. And so the front cast is made with a big forward motion like they were pounding a stake into the ground. What Kreiger says is that if you were trying flick a peach of a stick you would have to stop. Same principle with the cast. The difficulty is that after you stop, you do have to drop the rod tip.(Or else the line will pile up, as in a parachute cast) so the forward cast on the final cast, not on the false casts, is actually a three part cast. 1. Accelerate forward, 2. stop for a micro second as the rod unloads [That is Lefty's famous phrase- Speed up and stop] and 3. the drop (drift) the tip forward. JG
That's absolutely right Jerry. You have to STOP for a sec, then let the rod
tip drift down softly to get a nice presentation..........for your basic dry
fly delievery. What i like to do if and when i can is try to get the
line/leader to turn completely over while still in mid air, before i lay it
all down nice and even. Much easier said than done, because you get so
excited going after a riser. Isn't always easy to stay coo,l calm and
collected when fishing.......lmao. The idea is of course, to NOT spooke the
fish when casting to it. Get close enough with the cast to make sure of a
perfect drift of the fly to the fish and still not spooke it. I'll never get
it right all the time, but i've got it perfect a few times, he he he. Some
folks have been blessed with thousands upon thousands of opprotunities to
get it right. Good for them.........what few days i have left to fish, i
just hope i don't fall down and break my ass, rotf. Last week i was fishing
with Les Young, (truely a living legend), who's been comming to the
Catskills since 1957 and never missed a year. He's been here 10 times
already this year. Just watching him fish is simply mind boglling. He gets
in the water at 9 a.m. and gets out at 9 p.m. and has recorded each fish,
what it took, the wind, temps- both air and water, drift, and 15 other
things into his voice recorder in his vest all day long, and has at home not
thousands, but hundreds of thousands of tapes he's made pertaining to each
and every fish he has caught for over half a century. Been doin' this every
since those voice recorders were invented. The guy has three shirts on and
two vest on with 30 fly boxes at all times. And if anything i just
underestimated it. You gotta meet this guy some time. He's a regular in the
Hut at FAOL, and at our alternative chat room to the Hut. He catches more
trout in one day during the Roscoe Gathering/Fish-In every year, then the
rest of do all week combined,.......almost. In two days for sure. His first
day in town he had 67 trout. This is NOT a fish tale. He's unreal. I've
NEVER known anyone like him. His endurance is STUPID. Not silly, not
ridickalus, not unreal.....STUPID. At his age, how he deals with having to
piss is beyond me. Y'all outta start an IOFF sorta thing for fishers and
make him PRESIDENT. I gave him a rod one day, just because he's him, lmao.
Well.......enough for now. mark
