Hi John, I think an external cue would be to reach (or hold) back with the hand as the chest turns to target. I have a similar issue with casters not fully straightening their rod arm (or hauling arm, or both) on stopless backcasts. For them I have them really stretch out to imaginary targets in the...

Hi Torsten, I agree and we all have a different way of looking at this perhaps. For me a 110-115’ caster would be a caster who would reasonably expect a cast in 2 minutes of casting to land in this mark. Not the average but just the longest. That’s a very high level. It’s below competition level. Of...

I try to get my SW guys into the 110-115’ distance mark. Forehand and backhand. I think that technique level allows you to make 80’ shots into the wind. So one performance level above Lefty’s suggestion. It’s just technique and a measure of it. Carry is a better one for me. Somewhere in the 80 ft ma...

That’s a good question Torsten and I don’t know. I certainly try to keep it a fairly low key because I’m as busy as I want to be. This week was 10 lessons which is typical. Some weeks I do 15 and feel like I’m working too hard. I do have other things to do! I could go full time, which would look lik...

Do you also include how to stand up on the bow of a pitching and rolling boat without weight shifting?

Of course.

The previous comments I’ve made on these threads refer to how you teach “what” you teach. Historically the 170 and other distance casting techniques have been taught using direct instruction and highly internalised cueing, it’s usually instructor feedback dependent and error reductive. As you have ...

Yet you only gave Mark 3-6 months for the same task?

good point! But that’s not all I teach them!

I don’t know about cost/benefits but most of my students are SW anglers. They seem to be the ones searching for help.

So you’re possibly suggesting that we shouldn’t teach saltwater fly anglers taking shots because most anglers fly fish for trout? It’s funny that’s actually one of the main criticisms of the FFI instructor program in that it doesn’t properly represent or teach SW fly fishing skills and there was eve...

It is. But isn’t the question then how to teach these? That’s the interesting part.

Cheers, Paul

Yep they are not very difficult there, at least nothing like I have read about. It’s a different permit sub species too I believe and grows to the teens of pounds. It’s a cracking fishery however. Pressure obviously changes the behaviour of the fish. I can’t wait to fish and sail those waters north ...