Salt Water casting

Joe McIntosh wrote:
Warm late fall weather is providing lots of redfish in local N. C.. waters

....... but I am having real
trouble using a fly rod. Casting a nine weight while standing is real work
but as I fish sitting in a kayak my efforts are really sorry.
...........
Anyone with casting procedure suggestions please offer them......

I won't tempt the gods of irony by giving any casting advice (g).....

Maybe you could try either:

- a seven- or eight-weight with smaller flies (I used to do most of my
redfishing at Cedar FL with #2-#4 deceivers and #4-#6 bonefishy shrimp
and crab patterns).

- if you can't find a boat you can stand up in, just throw in the towel
and fish with spinning gear. Personally, I hate fly fishing from a
seated position. If I can't stand, either wading or in a boat, I'd
rather switch gear. Fishing is more fun when it's fun. :-)

Got any good redfish recipes to share? Excellent eating fish.... I miss
'em a lot.....

JR wrote:
Joe McIntosh wrote:
Warm late fall weather is providing lots of redfish in local N. C.. waters

....... but I am having real
trouble using a fly rod. Casting a nine weight while standing is real work
but as I fish sitting in a kayak my efforts are really sorry.
...........
Anyone with casting procedure suggestions please offer them......

I won't tempt the gods of irony by giving any casting advice (g).....

Maybe you could try either:

- a seven- or eight-weight with smaller flies (I used to do most of my
redfishing at Cedar FL with #2-#4 deceivers and #4-#6 bonefishy shrimp
and crab patterns).

- if you can't find a boat you can stand up in, just throw in the towel
and fish with spinning gear. Personally, I hate fly fishing from a
seated position. If I can't stand, either wading or in a boat, I'd
rather switch gear. Fishing is more fun when it's fun. :-)

Got any good redfish recipes to share? Excellent eating fish.... I miss
'em a lot.....

I have to admit I haven't watched Joe's casting, but usually this kind of stuff
comes when people think "back cast" instaed of "up cast" The backcast motion
is really up, and if you're sitting it's more important to think of it that
way. Stop the rod at vertical, or just a bit back of that. You'll need to
actually watch the rod to believe it's not stopping at the vertical. One
helper for this is putting your thumb forward on the handle, it helps prevent
the rod from wandering back on it's own.

I post this here because fly fishing is not hard from a sitting position, it's
easy. Don't give up on the fly just because you're sitting.

One time in Florida I was out with a guide in the Mangroves and the wind was
fierce. I didn't have a stripping basket, or bucket for the line, so I sat on
the deck with my legs out in a V. The line went into that V and stayed there
while I was stripping, then the casting worked fine. The guide was trying to
put a spining rod in my hand, but gave up when he saw I had a good solution.

Don't give up, practice a bit.

Chas
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