Essential Level Challenge

[Michal Duzynski]

 Ciao
  Im not sure how many of you tried already this entry level casting challenge, but after today chillout try I can tell IT IS NOT EASY PEASY LEMON SQUEEZY.
  Whenever I practice my distance, or just shaping loops I randomly pick my targets( nothing set), then I try to land the fly in it. It lands an inch away and I think if that was a hoop, it would be in- well, the true is different.
Couple of questions:
a) I set up my course today with tail wind, and later it start blowing all over the shop. How would you set up the course, and what is the error allowance with sudden side blow, or the wind being really pain in the ass?
b) look at the pic- is this where the object should be for the overpower curved cast? and then move it to the other side for offshoulder one?
c) TASK 6 -slipping line while creating Dloop- cool, but can I haul on the rollcast and backcast? Now with offshoulder( tricky). Can I after the rollcast( while line is in the air) turn arround, make forward- hauled cast( back to the target and diliver on the back cast to the target?

  FEW OBSERVATION
- it has to be train- practice, like everything

- 5wt MED and HT 5COMP, not a best match to it. Now I put BARRIO GT125 in 6wt. In couple days I see the changes( fishing tomorrow)

- my hoops are 68cm in diameter, but its not so easy to get it in, it seems like a big target, but many times it lands just outside

- collapsed cast, i got 99% right from the rollcasts, the overhead need some power and trajectory adjustments

  great exercise
Cheers
Mike

[Paul Arden]

Sorry didn’t get to Hungary last week but I will this week. Easy for me to make the video there.

a) no allowances. If it’s too windy then take the test next week! Clubs and local instructors can examine. It’s not as if examiners are being flown around the world. It’s run locally.

b) you could just stick it in the middle and cast one side then the other. On the video I’ll show you a better way to train for this.

c) of course you can haul. 6 doesn’t have an off-shoulder requirement.

DT6 makes quite a difference Mike. Particularly. If it’s breezy etc.

Cheers, Paul

[Lasse Karlsson]

 
- my hoops are 68cm in diameter, but its not so easy to get it in, it seems like a big target, but many times it lands just outside

  great exercise
Cheers
Mike

Hi Mike

Try it with the 2 meter in diameter target and see if that makes it easier

Cheers
Lasse

[Michal Duzynski]

Cool Paul, cheers.
Looking forward to the video.
Task 6, did not read correctly- that i less to worry about.

Hi Lasse, the biggest one in the shop was 78cm and it seemed huge to put the fluff in.
For now I,will stay with those 2( 68cm) and get my eye sharper.
Cheers
mike

[Paul Arden]

And stick a bright yellow tennis ball in the middle! This level is something you can do with your eyes closed Mike.

You can make a hoop with 22/7 x2 = 6.3m of hose pipe. Lots of options here.

Cheers, Paul

[Michal Duzynski]

No worries Paul, thanks.
I have a hose pipe, but I'll wait for your video first before cuting it.
mike

[Graeme H]

And stick a bright yellow tennis ball in the middle! This level is something you can do with your eyes closed Mike.

You can make a hoop with 22/7 x2 = 6.3m of hose pipe. Lots of options here.

Cheers, Paul

I use an old bike inner tube. More portable ...

Mike and Paul, I think Lasse was alluding to the tendency to miss by the size of the target. He's saying it'll be just as hard with a 2m hoop as it is with a 0.5m hoop or a tennis ball.

Cheers,
Graeme

[Paul Arden]

No I don’t think so. Even Lasse knows that 2m is a lot bigger than 68cm.

[Boisker]

I picked up some football marker discs for £4, small easy to stuff in your pocket and stand out on a grass field... amazing how much more accurate you are casting to these small targets than a hoop..
Same as these-
https://www.thesoccerstore.co.uk/footba ... rker-small

[Lasse Karlsson]

No I don’t think so. Even Lasse knows that 2m is a lot bigger than 68cm.

Paul's right for a change

If I put a tennis ball on the ground and draw two circles around it as a center, I have a larger margin for error with the 2 meter in diameter one compared to the one with 68 cm's, thats a no brainer. Yes a smaller target is usually better to get close to, thats why Paul suggests putting something in the middle of the target. And then gives a 1 meter margin to miss it. Its intro, not master, I suspect elite will be a teacup

Cheers
Lasse