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Cast Trajectory & Head Winds (in 500 Words)

JB — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:08:14 +0000

Today we are having the first really serious Pacific storm of the year here in the Portland area. Slashing rain and wind gusts over 40 mph are on tap, and it got me thinking about casting in the wind—specifically into head-winds. I have a lot to say about the subject, but to keep things reasonable, [...]

A Quick Analyzer Post for the Casting Geeks

JB — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:09:04 +0000

Been way too long since I had an appropriate level of casting geekery here at FF&W, so here you go… In digging back through the mountains of electronic files and folders lurking on my hard drive under the heading “Fly Casting,” I came across a stack of images from April of 2000. Among them were [...]

Building an Eclectic Reel

JB — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:30:20 +0000

As some of you may know, reels are my favorite piece of fly-fishing gear. So, when I saw that I could order the above reel as a kit from The Eclectic Angler, I couldn’t resist (couldn’t resist the $60 asking price, either). Also got a copy of the below book to go along with it: I will [...]

A Shadow Casting Exploration!

JB — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:00:09 +0000

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 [...]

Some Very Serious Shadow Casting…

JB — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:52:32 +0000

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 [...]

Social Browsing

JB — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:56:03 +0000

Kind of off-topic here, but we’ve been talking “social” today, so if you’re into the social scene on the Web (Facebook, Twitter, et al.), one browser you might wish to consider playing with is Flock. I’ve been using it as an adjunct browser for a couple of years and it’s designed specifically for integration with [...]

500fps Fly Cast – a1 (2 versions)

JB — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:36 +0000

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 [...]

Mo-Cap Fly Cast – Haul + Shoot 1

JB — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:52 +0000

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 [...]

Mo-Cap Fly Cast – Max Backcast 3

JB — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:32:14 +0000

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 [...]

Cast m1 Data Graphs

JB — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:07:11 +0000

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 [...]

500fps Fly Cast – m1 (3 versions)

JB — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:33:46 +0000

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 [...]

Hope You Casting Geeks Have a Fast Connection…

JB — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:00:24 +0000

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 [...]

Trout’s Eye Hoppers

JB — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:00:51 +0000

These are a couple of shots that I had posted over at FlyTalk, but I thought they’d be of interest here, too. Basically a trout’s eye view of a real hopper, along with a furled variation of the Bow Legged Hopper pattern (original, non-furled recipe below). You can see the edge of the fish’s window in [...]

FF&W [expeditions] – New Puffer Destination!

JB — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:01:58 +0000

FF&W [expeditions]™ is now booking spots for a select few anglers who have what it takes to meet the challenge of the puffer. We recommend appropriate angling gear (flip-flops are a good start), and specialty flies such as a pink Bogglehead (shown), or a size 12 Hare’s Ear. After years of research and the redemption [...]