FFF Fly Casting Clinic :: Nov. 12 – 19, 2010
4th ANNUAL TOM WHITE MEMORIAL :: FALL 2010 CASTING CLINIC
Join Joe Libeu and Dusty Sprague in November for outstanding fishing at Ascension Bay Bonefish Club (ABBC) in Mexico. ABBC maintains a long history of providing the traveling fly fisher with outstanding flats fishing inside the pristine Sian Kaan Biosphere. In addition to fishing for Permit, Bonefish, Tarpon and Snook, Joe and Dusty will provide presentations and one-on-one instruction to strengthen your casting and fishing skills. They will provide preparation workshops and can provide testing for Certified Instructor and Master Instructor for those interested in the Federation of Fly Fisher’s (FFF) Casting Instructor Certification Program. If you like, Joe or Dusty can fish with you and offer suggestions for curing casting problems and improving your presentations. Joe and Dusty have extensive experience in teaching fly casting and fishing for salt and freshwater species. Joe is also a FFF Master Certified Casting Instructor and member of the Casting Board of Governors.
The week includes seven nights lodging, all meals, six days of guided fishing with transfers to and from Cancun.
For more information about ABBC and the week see ascensionbay.comThe cost of the week is $3300.
Note: For those interested in being tested for FFF Certified Instructor or Master Instructor, advance arrangements are necessary. Contact us before the trip; we will arrange a morning during the week to provide the examination.
We are taking reservations now — Sign up now for the Fall clinic!
WIND VOLUME 2:: DEALING WITH SIDE WINDS
Dealing with Wind into the Casting Side
A cool breeze can be a welcome relief from the heat, but, annoying winds can limit a fly casters accuracy and distance and can cause injury. Winds into your casting side are most annoying and dangerous since the fly can be blown into you on the back cast or forward cast. Below are a few effective casting techniques to deal with that annoying wind into your casting side:
a. Cast sidearm, horizontally in both directions can keep the line and flies out to the side, low to the water, a rod’s length away.
b. Make a low sidearm backcast then swing the rod tip around to come forward over the downwind shoulder …a Belgian Cast.
c. Turn away from your target to make a cast opposite the target, then, while the line unrolls, quickly turn to face your target for the forward stroke ..the Galway Cast.
d. Cast over the downwind shoulder in both directions.
e. Turn away from your target to make a cast opposite your target, then present the fly on the backcast.
f. Learn to cast with the opposite hand.
Keep these techniques in mind, maybe one or more will be useful when that nice breeze turns nasty.
DEALING WITH HEADWINDS
Casting into a head wind can be frustrating since the fly, leader and line are most often blown back at you and miss the target. Two elements in casting are critical to deal with this situation — adding line speed and aiming close to the water. You’ll have to cast a good tight loop with more power to generate more rod bend and more line speed to penetrate the head wind. Hauling will help a lot. The added line speed won’t do it alone — you’ll need to aim closer to the water’s surface to keep the fly from being blown back off target. When stopping the rod down low in front you must stop the rod higher in back to maintain the 180 rod tip path to keep the loops tight.
Give it a try — you’ll be glad you did.
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