Checkout this You Tube video of a guy casting a 100’ with a bamboo rod. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIG8aBEif3I&feature=related Pretty impressive.
Thanks for sending that!! Very impressive plus I loved the background music!
Very cool. I too, liked the music.
If somebody gives me an Oyster Bamboo rod, I’ll learn to cast 100’ - I PROMISE !!
John
P.S. Thanks for posting the link.
I’m with you John,
I’ll take the Jimmy Carter model.
Life would be empty without it’s fantasies.
I bet I can do that…BILL, How about sending me one of your boos and I will prove it:wink:
ANd if I can’t…I will send it back…by September.
Okay you tea stick experts, what action would you say that rod is? Can a 100’ cast be done with a slow action bamboo?
I Thought all bamboo was slow action, just some slower than others.
My Payne and the Edwards is a faster taper though. If we weren’t having Idaho 60 mile an hour breeze right now, I would go try it. I know I have got close before (but never thought of trying to cast all the line).
My tea stick was a litter more on the quicker side, but it is in Alaska now.
I need to take Mr. Oysters class, that way I can find out first hand what his Bamboo are all about, besides a beautiful work of art.
Looks great, but how do you see a 22 or one of Fly Godesses 32s from that far LOL Need eyes like Superman Castwell
FG,
Excuse my ignorance with bamboo, but aren’t bamboo using a 4 sided structure medium to medium-fast? Not doubting your comment, just wanting to understand more about bamboo from the fragments I pickup here and there.
I have never cast a quad. I would think quads are more powerful, and a medium, but I have no idea on a medium/fast.
If talking Glass…more an S.
TyroneFly -
I’m pretty much a novice / neophyte at the whole bamboo rod thing. I didn’t pick a taper, I just picked the length and rod weight that was available to me. Compared to my graphite rods, I would say the bamboo rod I’ve been fishing is on the fast side of medium.
For whatever reason, probably a combination of the rod action and some improvement in my casting, or maybe the suitability of the rod to my casting style, I can cast the bamboo more easily for distance and better than any of my graphite rods.
No way I can cast 100’ or close to it. BUT, with the 8’ for 5 wt bamboo rod lined with a Rio Selective Trout II DT5F line, under favorable conditions, I can cast close to 70’. That’s about as good as I can do with with my medium fast Sage Fli 9’ for 7 wt lined with a Rio Selective Trout II WF7F.
What has occurred to me, but I’ve never heard a discussion of it on the various boards I’ve visited, is that bamboo’s MASS actually generates more POWER than does graphite’s SPEED. That’s more my intuition about what is happening than any science I am aware of - and I could be completely off base with this idea - but it would explain why casting for distance is easier for me with bamboo than with graphite.
Hope someone who knows the science of these things comes along and sheds some light on the subject.
John
I don’t know about the “speed” of a rod or whether a fast action would outcast a medium action. I think it’s all in the hands of the person standing at ground zero. I once saw JC cast an old, heavy, hardware store fiberglass rod at the Central Washington Fish In. I think it still had the price tag on it and sold originally for around $17. He cast the whole line plus some backing. I would say nearly 100’.
TyroneFly,
There are two items that must be addressed to make a 100 ft. cast. The first is the caster the second is the equipment.
The short version of 100 ft cast requirements:
Caster.
One must be a good caster. You need good loop control and a good understanding of the dynamics of the cast. You also need an “I can” attitude and the desire to be the very best caster you can be. If you say to yourelf "I only need to cast 40’ " and you are satisfied with that then 40’ will be your limit.
Equipment:
Most medium actioned bamboo fly rods from 7’ 6" to 8’ 6" or so in 5 thru 8 weight can be used to make a 100’ cast. There are some things that can be done to fine tune your tackle but that is part of the long version.
I know several people who can make a 100’ cast with bamboo. These are people that can walk up to a rod rack and be comfortable casting any rod on the rack. These folks are also a joy to watch cast because of the smoothness and purpose of their casting. Pure poetry in motion and energy control.
In short get your casting ready to cast long then worry about tackle. Get some instruction from a good instructor so you don’t practice the wrong things. Remember, if you practice a task wrong you will be very good at doing that task wrong.
Good luck and have some fun with learning to cast long.
fishbum
Nothing earth shattering there.
In 1899, Walter Mansfield the president of the the Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club set the world’s single-handed fly casting record of 133 feet and held the record for 35 years to 1934!! He also cast a rather diminutive 5 oz. fly rod 129 1/2 feet at a 1902 tournament.
It wasn’t graphite either!!
Unfortunately, today’s rod companies in their quest to brainwash the rod buying public have created the terms, fast, extra fast, super fast and equated it with distance prowess. It has its place but it isn’t a requirement for throwing a long line.
Take a Leonard Tournament, hollow butt Winston or a E.C. Powell rod out for a spin sometime and you’ll see what I mean.
Your words are so true they are worth repeating! One example is how for so long I could never cast into the wind, then I changed my attitude,I would practice on very windy days, read somewhere that wind is not a problem with the right frame of mind, what? I thought, but I focussed on loop control and my mind set, how the wind was my friend, corny thought, but, darn if it did not work, now I am able to take my eight weight and cast out sixty feet with straight low casts right into a strong wind… can do attitude and practice is all it took.
Simple and true…
I have seen this claim made by 'boo proponents, and I’m inclined to agree with it. I know I can punch into a wind better with my cane rod than just about any other rod I own.
Wow. If I do get where I can cast that far, I’ll probably put it in the tree anyway.
Besides…I can’t see my fly that far away…ModocDan
Also ( nota bene) he did NOT “stop the rod” It’s almost parallel to the ground on both the forward and back casts. If I have to cast that far, I usually wade/swim out about 65 feet first.
Mark
Casting downhill should certainly help your distance. :lol: