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...

VGB wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 5:56 pm

Anyway I’d love to see more presentation casting competitions

Cane rods to a target under a bush 25ft away would be interesting

It certainly would. Having got beaten in a similar competition (under a chair) by Haysie, I would now choose the B&A Roll Cast!!

Anyway I’d love to see more presentation casting competitions, more single handed Spey comps and some sort of shot based comp. Whack a mole would be perfect for me. We tried briefly to get Malaysia into the FIPS but we weren’t accepted. Somewhat ironically two years later I was written to and asked ...

Maybe but I doubt it. I see it more like pyramids. To get to the highest level you need the widest base. I realise not every competition caster tries to fish every single day like I try, but almost all come from a serious fly fishing background and more than a few make their living from fly fishing,...

Incidentally, Vince, something you might find very interesting (I certainly do) is that I have two elite or competition Spey casters who compete at WC level, who have come to me to learn Trout or 5WT distance. Separately, I think. With both of them I have gone straight to the 3Ps above. Despite it b...

I think they should be separated and I’ve argued that for a long time! I’m not entirely sure it’s as different as it appears on the face of it and we can still use constraints. Only one is loop down and the other is ground up. You still need to be versatile in competition of course because every cas...

When they brought out the non stretch core in the mid 80’s, Powergum became the thing to use. It’s like WTF?