Overview
What the rod tip does, the line does. From this underlying principle, Gary builds an amazingly thorough understanding of fly casting, and introduces concepts that help you achieve mastery over this essential angling skill. With the easily-understood techniques that he sets forth in this book, you will quickly acquire the essential elements of fly casting by using the time-proven pantomime-practice technique. Your abilities will grow quickly as technique flows seamlessly into technique, and precise casting tactics become integral components of your fly fsihing. In this delightfully informative book, he leads you through a thorough understanding of casting development and skill acquisition--from the nine different ways you can grip the rod, to highly detailed and easily understood descriptions of the three methods of fly casting. He details the essential understanding of Acceleration, Loop Formation, and Energy Transfer (A.L.E.), and presents the best practice tools and methods for developing good casting quickly. Gary reveals the secret of High Speed High Line (HS/HL) that he uses to make high, fast backcasts with tight line loops, and the way to shoot a long line. He shows you how to utilize a wide variety of casting styles, including the Elliptical Stroke, Casting in the Wind, Sidearm Casting, Tournament Style Accuracy, the Galway cast, and Across the Head Casting. In addition he skillfully covers the Bow and Arrow Cast, Extended Bow and Arrow, Roll Cast, Sidearm Roll Cast, Switch Cast, and Sidearm Switch and more, for your successful use in all fishing conditions. These many, highly useful techniques are backed by their use in his lifetime of fly fishing, worldwide. Illustrated with photos and the line art of Jason Borger.Author Bio
Jason has been fly fishing since the age of 2 1/2 and is widely recognized for his two books on fly casting (Nature of Fly Casting, and Single-Handed Fly Casting) and line drawings he contributed to other books. His art is widely recognized for its ability to clearly depict fly fishing and fly casting tactics.
Gary Borger is a retired college professor, and an internationally known author, writer, lecturer and fly casting instructor, with over 50 years of teaching casting at a professional level. He was the Midwest director of the Fenwick Fly Fishing Schools for their entire duration and in the past 50 years has taught fly casting to thousands of people. His teaching techniques are widely recognized for their thoroughness and ease of understanding. This book contains these classic fly-casting instructions. He has fished on all the continents except Antarctica and illustrates his casting instructions with anecdotes from these world-wide fishing excursions. He currently lectures on casting at Fly Fishing Shows and at private clubs and fly fishing shops.
