For those considering a fly-casting class.

[Gavin]

I casted with Lefty a few times and never got much out of it. My late friend Jerry Clark “the Single Malt Plumber” really upped my casting game, along with guys like Jim L, Brad E, and Brian E. The were all going for their Master Caster test and I’d cast with them.

[fishinwrench]

57 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

 Sure, wish I was perfect like others on here

And whom might that be ?   

If I came off that way then it's an interpretation error, because it was definitely never implied. 

Guarantee I've taken more Clousers to the head, neck, and face than anybody else here.   

[fishinwrench]

9 minutes ago, Gavin said:

I casted with Lefty a few times and never got much out of it. My late friend Jerry Clark “the Single Malt Plumber” really upped my casting game, along with guys like Jim L, Brad E, and Brian E. The were all going for their Master Caster test and I’d cast with them.

Always wondered where the glory of being dubbed "Master Caster" lied ?

And what the test entailed ?  

[BilletHead]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

And whom might that be ?   

If I came off that way then it's an interpretation error, because it was definitely never implied. 

Guarantee I've taken more Clousers to the head, neck, and face than anybody else here.   

                    I did not name anyone. I have hit Pat with clousers and she has me. Eye for an Eye I say but not with a hook involved. Glad I wear glasses. She is about to that point full time now. 

[fishinwrench]

2 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

I did not name anyone.

I know.   That's why I asked.    

Fair warning:.  I'm hitting the Tincup tonight, so nobody gets off that easy.   🙂

[fishinwrench]

@BilletHead.       Well ?

 

[Gavin]

The test criteria is available online at Fly Fishers International. It’s  very tedious to read,. It took my friend several attempts to pass it and he casts better quite a bit better than I do. Figure it’s like a mainstreet duck calling contest. Everyone runs a similar and difficult routine and the folks who make the fewest mistakes go to the final.

[fshndoug]

I judge how many fish I catch ,not so much my casting skills. I can say that saltwater flyfishing requires more skill than most freshwater applications

[tjm]

6 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Let me get this straight....

For 20 long years you had trouble shooting line because it was getting looped around your rod butt.......And it took the likes of Lefty Krey to make it stop. 

Jesus H Christ man, I don't know what else to say.     😂 

I take this whole post/thread back.....maybe y'all DO need to hire an instructor.   

At the time I was just starting to use overhead casting, I never fished any place where aerial casting was effective until I started going to RRSP. The blue lines and mill ponds that I fished back east never had a lawn crew. I  still don't use it very often, hardly ever shoot line. And I still think that casting is overrated.  

Now let me get you straight, you were born full growed and and already knowing how to shoot line? never had a single input from anyone else? no other fly fishers in your family or community?

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, tjm said:

At the time I was just starting to use overhead casting, I never fished any place where aerial casting was effective until I started going to RRSP. The blue lines and mill ponds that I fished back east never had a lawn crew. I  still don't use it very often, hardly ever shoot line. And I still think that casting is overrated.  

Now let me get you straight, you were born full growed and and already knowing how to shoot line? never had a single input from anyone else? no other fly fishers in your family or community?

That's cool.   I wanna master the bow & arrow cast.   There are old dudes like Joe Humphreys out East that can pling a leader and fly 30+ feet with amazing accuracy.    Like the flyfishing version of shooting docks.   That'd be a pretty handy skill to have in my quiver.    

I wasn't born full grown, but I did figure out how to shoot line before I even knew it was called "shooting line".   

When I was a kid (3rd-4th grade) there was only 2 known Flyfishermen in my town, and my papaw was one of them.   He didn't have the patience to teach a kid anything except how to cuss and gather firewood, but he did eventually teach me how to attach thread to a hook and allowed me to tinker with his fly tying stuff when I was at his house.    My cousin somehow came across an old Fenwick glass flyrod with Martin reel and brown level line, and I won it from him in a bicycle jumping contest (I was a huge Evel Knievel fan).     I checked out a book at our school library......and I wish I could remember what it was, or even who the author was, because I'd love to have a copy of it just for nostalgia.  But anyway, that's how I learned and got started.    Once I could pull it off I was given 4 McGinty wet flys and a galvanized bucket so I could go get enough 5-6" bluegill to bait a trotline for flatheads.   I succeeded, and even had 2 bonus bullfrogs......so after that accomplishment I was taken flyfishing for bass with Papaw anytime he went.    Took me 4 years to skunk him, and after that glorious day he never took me flyfishing again. And he also stopped giving me flys.  😂. 

We did lots of other kinds of fishing throughout the remainder of his life, but after that day if he went flyfishing.....he went ALONE.   And so did I.   

Met a dude when I was 14 that was a pretty serious flyfisherman & tyer (known on this forum as @Uncletube)  and he not only flyfished and tyed flys......he had a driver's license, a bag of weed, and a car.    We became bonafide TROUT BUMS way before being a trout bum was cool.  

And that's my story 😉