I think much of this is true, Mark. I’d love to see an assault course crazy golf style flycasting game. That would be fun. This of course means that there are more constraints and not less. That reminds me of the games we played at the conclaves and other meets. The first caster says what he going t...

There are many different types of accuracy competitions. Australia has their own. I think you’ve only seen the ICSF ones with fly fishing tackle, Mark. The other ICSF games are different again. 10WT sinking line I believe! I’ve certainly had a go at the Aussie ones when Down Under. That’s heavy gear...

I’ll play with that but my top level objective will be that static fly. In fast moving water an underpowered curve that leaves the fly in slack water and the line in faster water is a great fish catching cast, and I practice that a lot. Ok in that case it’s useful. I still don’t know if it’s better...

how do you define performance? I would think be how closely the fly and line lands according to our objectives. At first we might just want to curve or bend the line. Then we might want to curve around an obstruction. Then around the obstruction and into a target. The target can become increasingly...

The dog seems impressed! How do you structure your presentation casting lessons, Vince? Do you teach using key casts or is it all line manipulation without cast names? Do you then go deeper (eg curve cast with slack at the apex vs slack at the fly)? Personally I’ve always thought that sort of thing,...

The nice thing about these casts is you can practise in your garden (if you have a garden), even if it’s small. In fact you can probably practise indoors.

2 out of the 3 I taught last week were like that, both wanted pocket water techniques. Teaching them to transition from fishing in fast streams water to efficiently presenting the next cast was covered in the latter half of the lesson. They’ll need to practice that in the wild though, it’s not easy...

How often do you guys teach the objective of “Being able to hit a target randomly placed between 8 and 15 metres ” with bamboo rods with the target occasionally being under a bush? I haven’t had anyone come along with a bamboo rod for a long time. I was given one by Christian Strixner many years ag...

For a long time now, certainly since before I first came to Malaysia, when I get a new student who is an experienced fly fisher, the first thing I do is set out some targets and ask them to play around and hit them. Before Zoom I could just say “I’m just going over there to set up; have a play” and ...

There you go; you are the ideal chap to talk about structuring multiple lesson formats! Although most of my students are not beginners. And that definitely has a bearing on the case. My most typical caster is self-taught, has often been fly fishing for decades, can throw 70’. Being able to hit a tar...