Chuck Tryon Flies

[Gavin]

It doesn't really matter how good of a fly tier or fly fisherman he was.  I wasn't going there. His contribution to the sport and to the enjoyment of many is huge. I've learned a ton from his legacy, and from many, many others. 

[jdmidwest]

Fly Fishers are never going to be main stream famous.  Brad Pitt will never be remembered for "shadow casting" or whatever he did on "A River Runs Thru It".  But it was a good flick.

Never met Lee Wulff, but I did see Joan one time.  Most of the Orvis crew but none of the Perkins.  Chuck and Sharon, Charlie Reading, Tom Hargrove, Ed and Bob Story, even seen Phil Lilley a time or two.  All have done work for the sport, but will never be big stars.

I wanted to meet Dave Whitlock.  His style has been great and his support of the area has been the same.  I always enjoyed his books.  The last article I read was about his touring days out west with his sons in the Heyday of the fishing before the crowds landed.

[tjm]

Jason Borger did the Shadow Casting in that movie. I read that the cast sequence is a "Galway Cast" into a "Pendulum Cast" into a "Climbing Hook Cast" into the "Forward Cast". I'm not certain I know what a "Climbing Hook Cast" even is.

I didn't care much for the movie, but, I had read the book when it was first published and didn't think it had much to do with fishing either. The story I read told about a dysfunctional family and a kid that grew up to have his hands smashed one bone at a time by gangsters, then was  killed. I guess either he was a tricky card player or had sticky fingers, wasn't clear to me. But, I took it that the fishing was kinda like the drinking and the date, just peripheral incidents. then the movie was all about the casting and not so much about the book. Or maybe I missed the point of both.

I used to read all the time and I  think I probably heard of/read  most of the fly fishing authors that had published before ca2000, so thought I should have read Tryon, I don't keep up as much since then maybe, as there are more and new ones each year and I have taken to reading fiction.