casting championship

indian joe opines----have been lucky enough to fish with some pretty
accurate casters around North Carolina but never saw anyone cast for
distance until I attended Penns Clave last summer and the Swede tried to
help me with my casting. He could put the fly way out there and even said
his 12 year old son could cast out the full line!!!! I tried to explain to
him that most of our creeks are only 12 to 15 foot wide and all I would
catch with a long cast would be a tree.

Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship. He won when he threw the second longest cast ever recorded
by an American caster. It was 18 inches off the record for Americans at 819
feet.
Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built himself,
and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a strike
indicator?

"Joe McIntosh" wrote


Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship.

Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built
himself, and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a
strike indicator?

hell, joe, he wasn't casting--he was lifting weights.

yfitp
wayno

"Joe McIntosh" wrote


Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship.

Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built
himself, and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a
strike indicator?

hell, joe, he wasn't casting--he was lifting weights.

yfitp
wayno

wayno writes:

"Joe McIntosh" wrote


Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship.

Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built
himself, and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a
strike indicator?

hell, joe, he wasn't casting--he was lifting weights.

yfitp
wayno

And if he used a strike indicator, it would have to be a tennis ball.

wayno writes:

"Joe McIntosh" wrote


Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship.

Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built
himself, and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a
strike indicator?

hell, joe, he wasn't casting--he was lifting weights.

yfitp
wayno

And if he used a strike indicator, it would have to be a tennis ball.

wayno writes:

"Joe McIntosh" wrote


Just today I learned that a local fisherman has won the world casting
championship.

Course he was not fly fishing but using a 14foot 8inch rod he built
himself, and a 5oz sinker. Next time I see him I will ask if he uses a
strike indicator?

hell, joe, he wasn't casting--he was lifting weights.

yfitp
wayno

And if he used a strike indicator, it would have to be a tennis ball.

I threw the whole fly line once, stripped three times (one two three
wait.....)
and hooked an 8 pound bonefish at 90 feet.

If I'd stepped any closer, they would have spooked.
I've hooked bonefish at 15 feet before too. But sometimes you
have to make a long cast. Especially to the big ones.

wrote in message
oups.com...
I threw the whole fly line once, stripped three times (one two three
wait.....)
and hooked an 8 pound bonefish at 90 feet.

If I'd stepped any closer, they would have spooked.
I've hooked bonefish at 15 feet before too. But sometimes you
have to make a long cast. Especially to the big ones.


Outstanding!
Presenting a fly at 90ft is a great feat, but setting the hook at 90ft is
even a greater feat.
Nice land.
-tom