December 24, 2011 Head east, past the cruise ships, tourist traps, and taxis, past the miles of coastline, muddied by the winds of the last fortnight. Small bays open unexpectedly around corners glimmering blue through vignettes of seagrape groves, crowned by black and white reefs. Spindrift mists the windscreen, blurring details. The horizon seems impossibly far off. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘casting’
Key’s Chronicles: Early Season
Day I: Late start, low tide, breezy. Oceanside: small groups, singles, and doubles. Second cast: hooked up! Jump, jump. Sweeeet. Drag singing. Fish off. “Uhhhh… popped ‘im off.” Nope: reel in to find the backing broke! Motored around searching for a #10 yellow line zipping through the water but was forced to admit both the [...]
“Smooth”… That’s How It’s Done.
The word for today is “Smooth”. Definition: How Charlie Neymour wants you to cast. Observe. * This reminds me of my last trip to Andros and a lunchtime casting demo with Charlie. I’d come to think of myself as somewhat of a badass caster over the last couple days—with some reason given the conditions we’d [...]
*The FLYOSOPHER cometh…
Ok, ok. I’ve simply got to send a shout out to the blog: Flyosophy. The author–the so-called “Sean Juan” Murphy–runs (and I use the term loosely) a blog (again, loosely) that manages both occasional and prodigious output (or perhaps, throughput, is more accurate) on the subject of fly fishing… more or less. It is, I [...]
Cast a Line
May 5, 2002 Prospect Point, 3:30pm, rising tide. Bones in SE corner. Wind. Surf. Changed flies a half-dozen times; finally got a take on a #6 pink Flee with lead eyes to anchor it down in the wash. Saw other fishermen there, a fly-fisher among them, but they were too far to the NW and [...]
It’s a first…
I’ve never done this, but couldn’t help it. The film in question is just a sweet, sweet vid that I had to do a review on what I’ve learned in a just a few practice sessions. A review of the flycasting DVD “Taming the Wind: Prescott Smith Reveals His Secrets & New Techniques for Casting Into [...]
