Dusty Wissmath's Fly Fishing School Casting Tip Rod PositionShow Video Details ↓ Dusty Wissmath: Hi I'm Dusty Wissmath, director of Dusty Wissmath's Fly Fishing School & Guide Service and welcome to our video casting tips. [music] … Hi and welcome to our casting tips. I'd like to talk today about the position of the butt section of the rod occupies in relation to the bottom of your forearm. So many of my students are very concerned about what's happening nine feet out there at the end of the rod or forty feet out at the end of your cast. If you pay attention to what's going on right here, the rest is going to take care of itself. The butt section of the rod here is going to occupy only one of two positions in relation to the bottom of your forearm. It's either going to be against the bottom of your forearm like so in what I would call a zero degree position, or it's going to be in a forty five degree angle to the bottom of your forearm at a forty five degree position. When we're starting our cast, as we're lifting that line off the water, the butt section of the rod is against the bottom of our forearm as we break the surface tension of the water against the fly line. When I accelerate that rod to a stop, I open that angle to forty five degrees. Now if you can imagine the fly line has just straightened out behind me and hasn't started to drop yet. When I start to make the forward push of my cast, I'm going to accelerate that rod to a stop by closing that forty five degree angle to zero and then following it back down to the water. Thanks a lot and we'll see you on the water. [noise] [music] … … |