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Mark wrote:
Neither was mine... but I DID recently get a little help. I bought a copy of Mel Krieger's "The Essence of Flycasting"... and BOY it did a number on my casting... I am SO much better now, it's not even funny. Hell, I might even let some ROFF people see me cast now! Anyway, I highly recommend it. It certainly helped me! http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te... atic_product ....and if i'm not mistaken, Larry, aren't you in California? Mel Krieger is from the Bay Area and does casting seminars at different fly shops/clubs. Most any fly shop can give a lesson or two. brians |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:59:18 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote: My question ..after a comment. I'm a little afraid to get too involved in trying to relearn casting. I fear three things 1) getting so self-conscious that I actually get worse Been there, doing that. I got one piece of actual advice (lots of help with my setup and some information, but that's beside the point) on my casting when on the Traveling Clave. I've been trying to follow it and am at the total mess stage still. Confident I'll get it eventually, but I may have to break back to spin casting for a while. I was told that I was fine up to the backcast just before the cast that counts. Gah. I started looking back over my shoulder. The advice was right. Now all my backcasts suck. But it will get better. I'm sure it will. Next year will be better. Eventually... -- rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing. Often taunted by trout. Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it. http://www.visi.com/~cyli |
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wrote in message ... I was told that I was fine up to the backcast just before the cast that counts. Gah. I do the same thing, Cyli. Its like I false cast perectly until...the....cast.....that.........will......... put........the.......fly.. .....right...........TH--argghH! Now, I do this stupid thing that works really well. I actually lie to myself, and think "OK, next cast will be the one", but then I stop one cast early. I know it sounds like I'm kidding, but it really works. One other question: is it pronounced "Kylie", "Sylie", "Silly" or what? I can't figger it out. --riverman |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:46:54 +0100, "riverman"
wrote: One other question: is it pronounced "Kylie", "Sylie", "Silly" or what? I can't figger it out. Cyli is pronounced 'silly'. My friends had some trouble at first and thought I meant 'sigh-lee'. No. I tend to take myself _way_ too seriously and need to lighten up sometimes, so I shortened my previous username (Cylise, pronounced 'sill- lease') on BBSes to this and it stuck. Half the new people hired at work choke on it when introduced and some can never call me by it, but we have another Nancy there, so using my username works fine. My old BBS buddies were so accustomed to it that when they started visi and I came on as a customer, they automatically gave it to me as a username. When I went to work there, some called me by it and when we got another Nancy, my whole department I'm associated with found it easier to distinguish us that way and some of the others use it, too. It may help that I'm just a little bit eccentric, too. -- rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing. Often taunted by trout. Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it. http://www.visi.com/~cyli |
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"Larry L" wrote in message ... I'm 100% self taught as a fly caster and the truth is, my instructor wasn't too good.... In such cases the damage can, under certain circumstances at any rate, be undone. On the other hand, if the student was lacking......well...... Wolfgang who was every bit the equal of his tutor. |
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"Jeff Miller" wrote in message news:egikb.87562$AH4.30523@lakeread06... lid wrote: It may help that I'm just a little bit eccentric, too. -- no need to be so modest, cyli. g jeff Having seen thee and me and Cyli, and reflecting on the fact that we all used the same sauna on the same night, it occurs to one that modesty ain't all that bad a character trait. :) Wolfgang who, remembering a certain full moon in nc, wishes that wayno were so afflicted! :( |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:28:22 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote: Having seen thee and me and Cyli, and reflecting on the fact that we all used the same sauna on the same night, it occurs to one that modesty ain't all that bad a character trait. :) Uh, er, uh. Yeah. The physical modesty has crept up on me as my body had crept down on me. Oh, yeah, and as certain kinds of common sense have taken a firmer hold in my psyche. -- rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing. Often taunted by trout. Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it. http://www.visi.com/~cyli |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:28:22 -0500, "Wolfgang" wrote: Having seen thee and me and Cyli, and reflecting on the fact that we all used the same sauna on the same night, it occurs to one that modesty ain't all that bad a character trait. :) Uh, er, uh. Yeah. The physical modesty has crept up on me as my body had crept down on me. Oh, yeah, and as certain kinds of common sense have taken a firmer hold in my psyche. Well, at least SOMETHING has taken a firmer hold. --riverman (been there, doing that) |
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