Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 24 June 2022
I have recently read some fishing blogs. Some of them seems to have lot of words with nothing to say. Some others seems to be not much words with lot of content. For me writing these FPs are learning experience, I have to go thru my casting, fishing, guiding, teaching etc. Are FPs making any sense, I don't know always even myself.
So last week I told you about lady etc, she had two other person with her. I try to give some tips the one who had fished longest. He was not really ready to take tips until I told him that watch how your wife is casting. We watch her few casts and he started to re-think. I left him with his thoughts and went to do some training with other guy.
He was more way more willing to have some tips and we had great 30 minutes casting training, unfortunately sometimes graylings were disturbing our session.
Next day I had new group. Other one was way more experience than other so I start to help beginner.
I want that people learn rollcasting first in here. Reason is that then you can fish and not caughting bushes and trees. I know that waters they fish mostly back home, so it is helpful if he can rollcast properly. I start how to stand on the water, it might sound stupid, if you think it makes big difference how your feets are. In this scenario your casting hand is on upstream side and your are right handed. In start I told people to stand that their chest is pointing about 45 degree downstream, right feet has to be little bit out. Idea is that you stand towards area you are fishing and also that your body will reduce rotation during cast. You make lift from downstream and continue cast with frisbeecast, about 45 degree upstream. That gives you good position to continue and to make nice rollcast. If you go too much upstream, let's say more than 150 degrees from start, you might face few issues before rolling, and if less than 120 degree same thing. So I would say that optimal is between 120 to 150, from starting. Of course there are things that you have to consider, like how fast water is, wind and so on. Anyway let's stay now like in perfect condition. And perfect angle as 135 degrees., it is more like 120.
Frisbeecast is basicly just backhand-cast. Paul mentioned once that is like throwing a frisbee so I changed the name as frisbeecast, why? It is easy word, same word goes in English and Finnish, I think in multiple languages. Expression of frisbee is something that everyone knows and easily most of the people has done frisbee throwing so now it is also cast. Two important note from that, keep your backhand towards your target, when frisbeecast, do not turn wrist as forehand. You got the point allready, it won't be frisbeecast if you turn your hand. Reason? With forehand you will easily go over angle and too much upstream, also your body and hand won't reduce your movement so you go over, following some issues. When keeping backhand forward your body and hands are allready working for better angle. And then lift and just rollcast. I won't go deeper about that because this frisbeecast was where I got asshole teacher name.
So we trained and he started to casting. Every other was good and every other he turned cast as forehand and then had problems with rollcasting. I could see from his eyes that brains knew better and easier way but muscles were screaming, I know what we are doing leave us alone. So he had strunggle inside. After few cast I thought that I had to point out angle issue and how it is making his life difficult. I knew that he is teacher so I asked what he is teaching. He replied that yes it is angle between start and where to end up which is the problem and that he is math teacher. I just couldn't hold my laugh. Math teacher who knows fucking well angles etc and won't use his knowledge on his own behalf. He said that don't laugh and I said that sorry I just can't stop, you know why. We had short laugh together and he said that I'm asshole teacher, I just replied that know you know how your students thinks now and then. Afterwards he thanked that I was asshole, sometimes you needs to push your students just little bit more.
I told him that when you get your cast up, you will start catch a fish. And that was exactly was happened, during morning session he caught only one or two accident ones and he was mostly working on his casting. Afternoon when his casting start to be okay he started to caught some nice graylings more. The flyfishing is entirety. There is no use for fishing technique if you can't deliver fly on spot, and other way round.
So work on your casting all the time, as Paul's this week FP, set goals to become better. Of course you can always settle but why to do so.
Have a nice weekend and happy midsummer, I go guiding and fishing
Mika The Legend
Ps. part 3 is coming for sure, tomorrow we see if part 4 also.