Great article Paul. I think that what we are teaching is increasing the range of controlled movement and stimulating the grey matter with differential learning. The subject material is almost immaterial, I took a beginner through roll cast to snake roll this weekend in consecutive steps to unfreeze ...

I suspect 99% of the guys casting a fly rod have no concept of the need to get the line ‘positioned right’, nor even what ‘right’ entails. It is just not emphasized (at least from what I’ve seen/read) as an essential concept. It seems, rather, that instruction is aimed at making it happen indirectl...

Frank Sawyers bench at Netheravon

I guess I’ll have to rename my variant to “Elk Hair Sedge made with deer hair”

If you want to raise some froth on a fishing forum, go into the fly tying section and call them man knitters

He will have to live on seaweed, you can’t catch potatoes in the sea.

I name all my flies even if I haven’t fished them. I’ll call them “pile of shite”, “hope it doesn’t fall to bits” and “needs more glue”.

Regards

Vince

There are several senses of the word flight, and the one connected to beverage and food tastings is derived from the sense of "a group of similar beings or objects flying through the air together," which was incubated in the nest of Old English flyht—itself related to flēogan, the Old Engl...

Maybe I’m misunderstanding but apart from the transition between different angles, why does the cast break the 180 rule. If I have understood the description correctly, it is a drill Mark put me through as a mentor albeit at 40ft to increase my range of control.

Regards

Vince

What line weights do you fish Torsten? In #5 upwards it has always been nymph or cone head strikes that caused a rod break for me. #3 and below it has been due to sticking the tip into the tree or a bank, the cf tips are very fine diameters. I’ve never broken a glass rod, nor heard of one broken. Re...

A bit of nostalgia