Pro Tips

 

Now, that is something you don’t hear often when one is perusing the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. More along the terms of “just a little farther”, mend it, and so on and so forth. Yet when it comes down to it, the perfect back cast is the single most important unheralded and under scrutinized piece of the puzzle.

 

Now you will probably ask why? Justifiably, so I have some reasons. The picture of a perfect effortless backwards stroke of a fly rod-one with the line flying out the tip at mach two, the thumb and wrist cocked ever so slightly at just past 2:00 clock gives me a chill-one that I usually reserve for when my Elhew locks up in full stride, head forward, nose in the air and tail straight to the sky, waiting for the rooster to bust. Casting a fly can do that sort a thing to man. Albeit a little weird but none the less you get my drift.

 

If Einstein was a fly fisherman and I was a betting man I would venture outside the box to say he would have been a hell of a caster. Physics as much as many of us hate it, and I for one could care less about E=MC2, is essential to one part fly rod and one part fly line. If one is heavier than the other for which it was intended, it can have effects-Some good, some bad.

 

I always tend to lean the way of the rod, change the taper of the fly line, not the grains or line weight it was designed for. That is the key to success with casting and more importantly a SCOTT fly rod. Every model has a sweet spot and they are designed for the line weight that is appropriately marked.

 

Eventually all things merge into one and actually a sweet ‘lil river does run by the factory. So if you ever get the chance to kick it in Colorado, stop in and say that “Tyler sent you”, you might get a “dude, sweet, right on, or let's fish! But one thing's for sure, you will see some sweet back casts.

 

Yee-Ha, Now get out there and fish.

 

Tyler Palmerton