Orvis Guide to Better Fly Casting A Problem-Solving Approach
by Kyte, AlFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-07-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary
Fly casting might look easy - you just move the rod back and forth, right? Well, that's true, but between back and forth a lot can go wrong. The perfect marriage of human skill and dexterity to the cork and graphite of today's fly rods takes a good bit of work, and this is the how-to book that gets you around common mistakes and bad moves so you can develop the muscle memory that makes for easy, accurate, and highly successful fly casting.
Author Biography
Al Kyte has been teaching fly casting and fly fishing for thirty years. He is best known throughout the fly-fishing world for his instructional book, Fly Fishing--Simple to Sophisticated, and for his articles, particularly those based on his unique biomechanical research on fly casting. A longtime faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Kyte developed his own fly-fishing schools through the University of California Extension and taught in the Mel Krieger-directed Fenwick schools. A popular program speaker, Dr. Kyte fishes from Alaska to the Bahamas, and in 1994 was honored to be selected to the Orvis Pro Staff--their only trout-fishing advisor west of the Rocky Mountains. That year also marked the beginning of his regular fly-casting column in California Fly Fisher. He lives in Moraga, California.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Better Basic Cast | |
| What Is a Better Cast? | p. 3 |
| Elements of Style in the Overhead Cast | p. 8 |
| The Short Overhead Cast | p. 27 |
| Practice Progressions for the Short Overhead Cast | p. 38 |
| Adding the Line Hand | p. 51 |
| Better Distance Cast | |
| Casting for Distance: Purpose Changes Movements | p. 63 |
| Style Differences in Distance Casting | p. 73 |
| Adding Drift | p. 83 |
| Adding the Double Haul | p. 95 |
| Better Problem Solving | |
| Learning Your Fly Rod-One Movement at a Time | p. 107 |
| Combining Your Fly Rod's Movements | p. 125 |
| Applying Rod Movements to your Fishing | p. 138 |
| The Continuing Journey to a Better Cast | p. 148 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 151 |
| Index | p. 152 |
| About the Author | p. 160 |
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