casting for casting advice

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

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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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

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

lid wrote:



It may help that I'm just a little bit eccentric, too.
--


no need to be so modest, cyli. g

jeff

"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.

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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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!

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:26:08 GMT, (Greg Pavlov)
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:30:44 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:


Mu probably has the best advice -- nothing like seeing your mistakes
first-hand. -- Greg sent me a video of my spey casting


Gee, I wish I could spey cast as bad as that.....

Ya, I was in a real unhappy place today -- left bank, strong
downstream wind so everything was on the left side -- not pretty at
all.

and I lost a fly to a pike of all things . . .

Peter

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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

wrote in message
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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.


Well, at least SOMETHING has taken a firmer hold.

--riverman
(been there, doing that)