Friend, and fellow casting instructor, Matt Paluch, recently acquired the Deschutes River Camp property and fly shop on Oregon’s famed Deschutes River. He has asked me to come over and do a series of casting clinics for his grand re-opening on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23. I’ll be doing two, four-hour clinics on [...]

Just a little slice of something I wrote a while back for those readers who like to push their fly-fishing skill sets a bit. In any sport, there are those athletes who can develop and utilize the “last five percent” of their abilities. Five percent may not seem like much, but it is the difference [...]

This one is a slice from the recent FF&W E-List mailing, and is also straight from the next version of my Nature of Fly Casting book (and not yet edited). Makes for a decent (if brief) lead-in piece to the “Heathier Cast” post/page. Here goes…. If you’re going to be doing some serious casting during a [...]

If you’re an FFF Certified Casting Instructor, and living in the PNW, and feeling the need to be continually educated, I thought that I’d let you know that I’m doing a continuing education seminar for FFF Certified Casting Instructors in Albany, Oregon on March 13th (how convenient, huh?). If you are indeed an FFF Certified [...]

If you’ve seen this video, you can read my critical take on Jazz & Fly Fishing’s New, Improved Shadow Cast here. (Some bits about the “real” Shadow Cast, and other River Runs casting, can be found here.) Update: Please read the “exploration” with your tongue firmly in your cheek! Update 2: If you want a [...]

Advanced Trick Casting: The Shadow Cast from Jazz and Fly Fishing´s Jazzcam on Vimeo. Got a little note to check this out. Be sure to read the whole series of “Shadow Cast” posts at Jazz & Fly Fishing. Just don’t get too serious. Update: Some FF&W readers are having trouble playing the embedded video. If [...]

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] QuickTime format – 3MB Just a little throw-back to when I was writing a column for “Fly Rod & Reel” magazine in the early 2000s. In addition to the writing, I supported the column with short videos. This vid [...]

Here are the next two hi-res, 500fps fly casting videos (sequence a1 this time) from my friend and physicist, Grunde Løvoll. These particular videos were used to generate some of the data for 2006 article, “The Rod & The Cast,” (first published in the Japanese “FlyFisher” magazine). As before, these videos are not directly viewable [...]

More FCI-based motion-capture goodness (and there will be a new post of Grunde’s 500fps videos soon, too). Like the previous mo-cap video, the file linked to here is based on the original 200fps capture. The file shows a standard, overhead cast sequence made by me using a 5-weight, weight-forward line on a Sage XP590-4 rod. The cast [...]

After posting the first set of 500fps videos from my friend, Grunde Løvoll, I promised some motion-capture (mo-cap) video, as well. So, here it is (download link below). This video isn’t really video in the traditional sense, it’s data points captured in three dimensions and then output as a video-based file. The file linked to [...]

I promised that I’d post a couple of graphs showing some of the data collected from the high-speed video sequences shown in a previous post (cast m1). So, I have included them below. Keep in mind that these graphs do reflect some “noise” in the data, and that the cast is not oscillating up and [...]

As promised, here are the first three 500fps fly casting videos (sequence m1) from Grunde Løvoll. These particular videos were used to generate data for “The Rod & The Cast,” which was written back in 2006 (and first published in the Japanese “FlyFisher” magazine). These videos are not directly viewable here at FF&W, instead they [...]

See that video up there (requires QuickTime)? That’s less than half the size (and not of the quality) of what’s coming. With my Web hosting account, I pay for a lot of space and a lot of bandwidth. While I have future plans for a chunk of that space and bandwidth, my calculations say that [...]

With the Tour de France starting tomorrow (live report), I thought I’d do a little post relating cycling to fly casting. When I was road racing (i.e. when I was younger and faster), I paid a lot of attention to the more “advanced” aspects of things like pedal/cleat interface, body position, gearing, and of course, [...]