"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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New fly rod....big trouble. Tried casting while actually standing
in a stream last night. Two books said that x amount of line should
be laying in front of me before the pickup. This worked fine when
practicing on the lawn. They do not explain what to do when the
water's moving swiftly from left to right, taking the pile of line
with it, and you want to fly to end up to the left. I managed
something creative, but the leader & tippet were not exactly
landing gracefully - more of a bunch than a nice presentation.
Help.





Many folks develop the nasty habit in this situation of roll-casting
to
put
the line out in front of them so that they can pick up for a backcast
in the right direction. It works, but I'm told its not desirable.

Pick up the line however you can, and adjust the direction later

Scott

Like....working it around while it's airborne until it's oriented
correctly? In other words, if the line's headed downstream to the
right, the pickup's going to head pretty much to the left initially,
unless I keep it airborne for a few cycles to get it behind me.




Yeah, but it really shouldn't take more than one false cast. You cheat
the direction a little bit on the pickup, then the first front cast. You
might not even need any false casts.

Alternatively, you might not even need a backcast, if you can just sort
of flip your line upstream from its downstream position. A roll cast
might be all you need

Scott