Hmmm. I think I am finally getting this. I just need to cut my line back to 60 feet and I'll be casting into the backing! ;)
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Hey, no problem, here either Hut!! I just HATE IT, when I KNOW I've read an article somewhere, then can't find it, again, when I want to!! I can read something in our local, 5 page newspaper here, 3 hours later tell someone about it and then try and find it again.
Seems they just "vanish", even in a 5 page, local rag!!!?!
Naturally, it's even worse, when I'm trying to find something I read, in a stack of eleventeen-hundred past issues of fly fishing mags!?!
Hey, I'm not so bad after all! I can do over 100' with a shooting taper. I can do close to 100' spey casting.
Distance casting is useful for fishing behind tailraces, where wading is not possible, and for targeting extremely wary, spooky fish like permit, or carp. It's also good for fast-moving, large rivers. Usually, your fishing with a sinking fly pattern, so it's not really necesary to see your fly. When one hits, you'll know it, especially if it's a striper or carp. And, you can see your line and have a good idea where the fly is.
Straight casting, I can do 25-30 yards fairly easy with no wind, and a 5/6 wt. rod. But it isn't always pretty! I have been known to slap the water with my line so hard, that jet skiers followed me around so they could 'jump the wake'. I can no longer fly fish near the Coast Guard base at Destin, Fla., because they said my casting interfered with their SONAR! :P
Like I've said many times before, if I cast 30', the fish is at 35'. If I can hit 100' the fish will be 105' away. So take it from there. Short casts, distance casts. I'm always 5' short of the fish.
I think one of the advantages of distance casting is that if you can cast 90 feet, casting 40 or 50 feet will be so much easier, so much less tiring.
Randy
OK, let's not get into the pro's and con's of distance casting.....we've been there done that.
I still want to know why these so called world class casters didn't cast the whole line?????????
There is no down side to accuiring the skills to throw a fly line any distance you may feel you wish to aspire to. The rest is just back ground noise. :cool:
Ducksterman As was explained earlier in the thread they were limited for the purpose of the article to fifty feet on the back cast. That is a lot less than they would ordinarily have out on their final back cast before shooting as much line as they could on the final forward cast.
Thanks ,Rainbow...your post made me go back and read through the thread and I see I missed Matt's post since I was posting about the same thing almost at the same minute...actually he answered my question a minute before I posted it:D