Re post 308... "I’ve also been working on some drills to simulate fast water presentations on grass. After landing the fly, they have to do a full arm strip slowly without the fly moving to demonstrate that they have put the slack in, the presentation has the line as high off the ground as they...

I cannot tell a difference when casting, but for setting the hook into a hard mouth fish the difference is significant. So much so that I suspect that a low stretch core would be a poor choice when using light tippets, like for trout. I say this because if that hard mouth fish is prone to jump immed...

Stretch and release? Let me take a guess... which has a better than 50% chance of being wrong. :( But I believe it is a common instruction for kids who want to be US football quarterbacks? If you Google for football passing technique coaching, you will find a number of slow-mo videos of famous NFL q...

Oh shit...

LK is Lefty!

I thought LK was Lasse, so I went all over trying to find his saltwater book!

I'm ashamed as I knew LK#1, and disappointed there is not a LK#2 book.

Where do you go from here with this dream student? Cheers, Paul I'd go with them to Key West! The permit fishing there is excellent. In fact, as far as I know, it is where permit on fly originated. I would also suspect that more permit on fly have been caught there than everywhere else in the world...

Paul, In another forum you mentioned the idea of wrist flailing as a possible cure for a student "struggling" for distance. I consider myself as such a student, and have been all my life. At every stage I have always strived to cast further, and I still do so today. Somewhere along the lin...

Sorry!

SQEP?

I’m all in for error reduction in competition casting or assessment preparation but I’m not so enthusiastic for recreational purposes when error is much more highly objective dependent. What is a tracking error in your competition cast might be extremely handy in a presentation cast. In the recreat...

Phil, So... you were wading? The cast I described we call a "worm burner". Isn't that a technical term from the world of golf? It is very do-able from the bow of a skiff. It is significantly harder when standing on the water surface, like when standing in a canoe. But you were wading? How ...

Phil, I can imagine a scenario where a cast like that is required. :D A great way to practice getting the required perfect tracking is on a wood floor of a basketball court, although a parking lot will work but is harder on the fly line. You gotta get the line directly under the rod tip, and in a ve...