09-30-2010, 09:38 PM
Great video, Mac! Thanks for bringing that up. His are very similar to some of my casts except mine usually end in creating knots! [shocked][blush] Good techniques, I fish a lot of places that you can't backcast at all.
On this particular stream though my real problem was that the casts were so short that I was having difficulty loading the rod. The amount of line that was out from my rod tip was mostly leader. That is when I decided to eliminate the leader and see if I couldn't then flip or cast my line the short distances more accurately and with a smaller loop. I was doing a lot of my casting to holes in under bushes and maybe only a short ways away. Taking the leader off gave me a lot more line weight to work with but also put my line fairly close to my fly. I did a lot of midair stops and quick side flips to keep the fly line over away from the fish as much as possible. I wouldn't recommend it in most other places, but it worked on this stream.
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On this particular stream though my real problem was that the casts were so short that I was having difficulty loading the rod. The amount of line that was out from my rod tip was mostly leader. That is when I decided to eliminate the leader and see if I couldn't then flip or cast my line the short distances more accurately and with a smaller loop. I was doing a lot of my casting to holes in under bushes and maybe only a short ways away. Taking the leader off gave me a lot more line weight to work with but also put my line fairly close to my fly. I did a lot of midair stops and quick side flips to keep the fly line over away from the fish as much as possible. I wouldn't recommend it in most other places, but it worked on this stream.
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