As a few FF&W readers may know, I was fortunate enough to get some time on an early version of the Casting Analyzer way back in the dawning days of the device. (If you don’t know what the Casting Analyzer is, see the Castanalysis web site). Those initial analyzed casts provided a few graph’s worth of data [...]

Just giving this a bump back up the post list… Looking for one of these? Amazon has them on-sale for $19.95 (cheap!) (plus the usual shipping fees, etc.). If you’ve always wanted one of your very own, now is the time. Imagine the look on your face when you unwrap the package and see that [...]

Some kids go to summer camp. This kid (me) goes to rod camp. Or more specifically, rod-building camp. I hadn’t built a rod in more than 20 years—until this week. And now, I’ll be building them left and right. Or, more often than not, semi-building them: Find the spine, press-fit the handle, tape on the [...]

For those who have been putting up with my laziness waiting patiently since, oh, February, for me to get this back up at FF&W, here it is! While there was already a post that showed the videos, I think it’s best to include them here again (and if you want to see a serious curve, check [...]

Looking for one of these? I know where you get one (or several dozen) cheap! Amazon has them on-sale for $19.95 (plus the usual shipping fees, etc.). If you’ve always wanted one of your very own, or perhaps as a gift for a lucky family member or friend, now is the time. Imagine the look [...]

My friend, and fellow casting geek, Tomonori “Bill” Higashi, e-mailed me a few months back asking if I had a good mo-cap sequence showing SLP (that would the “Straight Line Path” of the rod tip during a cast, which is actually only straight for part of the cast, and then only for casts where it [...]

The Portland Midnight MPR League (“PMML” on the street) was born from a desire for something more, something that would be remembered, something that would etch the names of the brave into the hearts of a city longing for heroes. The PMML is secretive, its members few. The exploits of the group on the dark and [...]

Just finished the latest FCI Clinic here in Missoula. It was a great 2 1/2 days, and for those FCI clients who are reading, Josh is already hard at work on your motion-capture CDs. When we were setting up the cameras and hardware, I had the chance to do a few capture runs myself. After [...]

Here is another of my previously published pieces that has worn out the printed page in several languages. So, I figure that FF&W is a good place for it to hang out for a while. It takes a somwhat alternate approach to presentation, but it’s an approach that I’m sure has been used successfully by [...]

Up-close-and-personal fishing can be one of fly fishing’s most exciting aspects. At extremely close ranges, however, “normal” casting is often not possible or desirable. What to do? Easy, just break out your Bow and Arrow (cast, that is). While the Bow and Arrow Cast gets relatively little attention in fly fishing, I consider it a [...]

A little bandwidth consumption from the “From the Archives” department. Actually this is more like, “It’s Saturday night, I need to make a quick post, and look what I just found in a long-lost folder.” Origins aside, this is a much more visual follow-up to the Triple Shooting post that I put up here in [...]

I occasionally get e-mails asking about roll and Spey casting on grass, and ways in which to make land-bound practice more useful. What follows is an almost-verbatim snip from my Nature of Fly Casting book about one potential aid in grass-casting. – – – – – – – – – - It can be difficult [...]