Joe, less accurate by an average of 1 foot 6 inches on 100 34.75 foot casts. Mean deviation 3.62 inches. If you doubt me, run the test. :-)

Casts are like snow flakes no two are alike. Underhand, overhand, sideways, long, short, fast, slow, you approach the target, survey the terrain, select your lure, gauge your swing, hold your tongue in the right position, and cast away, now you are fishing.

Repeat this ritual as many times it takes to motivate the fish to strike.

The more you fish the more the art of casting becomes a conditioned reflex of feel and is accomplished without much thinking.


Have fun

A honest question deserves an honest answer: "How much more accurate in feet and inches?" Well, it varies with each fly caster, but in a fly casting accuracy contest at 35 feet I'll take an end-of-cast wrist flipper whose fly rod tip otherwise follows a straight line against a swooping arc of the fly rod tip-top caster. Why so short? Because the all-wrist swooping fly caster can't cast more than 35 feet - without a bodacious tail-wind.



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This guy has proper technique, but according to some he is too slow on the draw... he hesitates way too long, but makes up for it in the end!

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Just tossing in a little humor...



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Kent,
Thanks for the reply and video link = I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF THEM !!! (the launcher, not the babe!!!)

Mark Talmo
FISHING IS NOT AN ESCAPE FROM LIFE BUT RATHER A DEEPER IMMERSION INTO IT!!! BUILDING YOUR OWN SIMPLY ENHANCES THE EXPERIENCE.

… even if she does have nice teeth!!!

Mark Talmo
FISHING IS NOT AN ESCAPE FROM LIFE BUT RATHER A DEEPER IMMERSION INTO IT!!! BUILDING YOUR OWN SIMPLY ENHANCES THE EXPERIENCE.

Teeth. Yeah right. I know and you know we both be checking out ummmm yeah, her teeth.

Look guys I did not mean to shut down proper casting discussion with the babe launch!

Resume away and keep playing the babe launch a few more times...

Honestly I thought the guy was just plain too patient on his hesitation there and slow on the draw, but at least he wasn't smacking her on the backswing like I might of done. Sorry sweetness! If one could call it that. I suppose in certain ways yes I could!

Kent,
It was my topic and you certainly do not need to apologize; I applaud your injection (so to speak). We all need to keep ourselves and others around amused or life can become a real drag!

Mark Talmo
FISHING IS NOT AN ESCAPE FROM LIFE BUT RATHER A DEEPER IMMERSION INTO IT!!! BUILDING YOUR OWN SIMPLY ENHANCES THE EXPERIENCE.

I never use the word 'casting ' when instructing fly fishermen. it serves only to confuse them, as they already know how to 'cast' most any other type of fishing rod already and it just serves to confuse them.

If the streams/rivers you fish are no more than sixteen feet wide you have no reason to learn how to fly cast. You can fly fish out to eight feet standing on shore from one side, wade across, and fish the other eight feet from the other bank.

Sorry for not being more clear , I'm a saltwater fly fishermen and teach with the most accurate language to the students understanding . The word casting means so many diffeerent things to so many different people , I simply don`t use it with flyrod students.