Solving Fly-Casting Problems

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Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): The Lyons Press
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Summary

Casting a fly line is truly an art, and in Solving Fly- Casting Problems, Lefty Kreh shows how to get more distance, avoid tangles, and cast under conditions that would make fishing impossible for other anglers. Lefty begins with the fundamentals common to all good casts, and goes on to diagnose and eliminate a variety of casting problems, including how to: tame tailing loops, cast in windy conditions, change the direction of a cast quickly and accurately, get wet flies deeper and faster with a tuck cast, avoid trees and bushes behind the angler by throwing an extra-high backcast, skip the fly across water to reach under low-lying branches, and much more. Solving Fly-Casting Problems is written with the insight of a half century of teaching experience, and will be a great help to fly fishers at all skill levels.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lefty the Wizard v
Lefty's Principles of Fly Casting
1(2)
Footwork Is Important
3(3)
Inefficient Roll Cast
6(2)
Efficient Roll Cast
8(2)
Elevated Roll Cast
10(1)
Long-Distance Roll Cast
11(2)
Side Roll Cast
13(6)
Aerial Roll Cast
19(4)
Learn to Tighten Your Loop
23(3)
When the Wind Is on Your Wrong Side
26(2)
Casting in Tight Places
28(1)
Change-in-Direction Cast
29(3)
The Tuck Cast
32(2)
Stack Cast
34(3)
Dropping the Rod for Slack
37(2)
Ripping Line off the Water
39(1)
Throwing an Extra-High Backcast
40(3)
Mending Line Properly
43(4)
Reach Cast
47(3)
Controlling Line on the Shoot
50(2)
Extra-Effort Cast
52(2)
Using a Mousetrap
54(2)
Using a Hula Hoop
56(1)
Skip Cast
57(3)
Tailing Loops
60(5)
Loose Line at Your Feet
65(4)
Catching the Line to Examine or Replace the Fly
69(4)
Rod Angle
73(8)
Casting Weighted Flies and Leaders
81(3)
The Dump Roll Cast
84(3)
Casting into the Wind
87(3)
Short Index 90

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