Well, maybe sight fishing for a trout excluded.

He is that James, and I am sure we both would have stayed till stumps. Bummer when other things get in the way of casting.

A week or so ago I got an email from Michal Duzynski advising he was arriving in Melbourne at 10:30pm on 28th January and asking would it be possible to catch up for a cast that night. We have three casting pools in Melbourne, two with lights, but in the middle of our off-season and temperatures in ...

I hope it is after the World Casting Championships in Poland which ends 7th September. Looks like we'll have to rely on the good auspices of the Scandinavian countries again. Paul worked hard on England for this year and Colin and Andy worked bloody hard to secure the 2013 World Championships in Eng...

I agree Paul with your comment about the wrist and the backcast. In my light line casting, I turn over the wrist on the backcast to that "under the horizontal" position, whereas on heavier gear (shorter lines) I do not. My forward false cast and delivery have the same wrist movement for bo...

Not sure I agree Gary with the idea that all of us are created equal with respect to the mix of fast and slow fibres in our muscles, as I think genetics has a say in that. If you have any studies that show that, I would love to read them and discuss with some people I am working with on casting tech...

You're right Gary, Steve, like all all good distance casters, employs a late haul. The problem with that is the later the haul, the greater propensity to have the downward hauling action negatively impact the path of the rod hand. The heavier the gear the greater the negative impact and that affects...

Steve has a relatively short stroke compared to others and his timing is as good as any caster in the world. He does not have to make up for a timing deficiency with power or stroke length. He has excellent timing and this is very obvious when you watch his backcasts; same loop depth, same trajector...

It is interesting, given my view of the role of the wrist in distance casting, that it is the point of difference when comparing light line (long belly 5 weight) distance casting to shooting head (up to the ICSF 38 gram shooting head) distance casting. I envy you blokes in Europe, having the opportu...