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 [...]

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] While a link to this DVD already appears over in the sidebar, I thought that I would eat some bandwidth and post a short QuickTime clip—slightly modified—from the video. If you happen to be looking for the new-wave in [...]

Okay, this little piece is something that I wrote for a fly-show booklet this last winter. I had enough space for 300 words and a photo. That’s not a lot of room in which to describe the double haul. In fact, once I got into it, I began to view the article as an exercise, [...]

(A bit of casting/line handling skill for the upcoming (northern hemisphere) season). Triple Shooting is a name used to describe a sequence of three shooting-line skills made consecutively as a cast progresses. As a whole, Triple Shooting consists of Slip Shooting, Back Shooting and Front Shooting. Triple Shooting allows line to be lengthened rapidly and can [...]

While this link was already posted in a comment about the Corkscrew Curve Cast, I though that I would make it a post, as well, since it is a serious example of the skill. How far can one cast a Corkscrew Curve? Have a watch and find out (from Lasse Karlsson). Note also that Lasse [...]

Back by popular demand (and those ladies in Bend, you know who you are). These are just two quick reference videos for the Corkscrew Curve and Inverse Corkscrew Curve. No text at the moment, but I’ll work on getting that back up here shortly… [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on [...]

I’ve been exchanging a few e-mails about various aspects of casting with Dr. Server Sadik, who is both an engineering prof at Montana State University and part of the original MSU/FCI motion-capture crew from back in 2004. In our back-and-forth, Server mentioned that he had some good SLP still shots from that original mo-cap session. [...]