{"id":102,"date":"2017-11-07T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:22:33","slug":"the-five-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/the-five-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/241387904?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These are Bill Gammel&#8217;s Five Essentials of Fly Casting. Bill is one of the most gifted instructors that I have ever met. Arguably no one has done more for flycasting instruction. A great guy and fun to fish with; I look forward to the day when he and his sons come over to Malaysia to fly fish for Giant Snakehead with me!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/big76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/big76.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/big76-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Gammel and Rick Hartman in Texas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bill has also written two brilliant must-read articles for Sexyloops:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/billgammelsguide.shtml\">http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/billgammelsguide.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/adjustmentsonthefly.shtml\">http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/adjustmentsonthefly.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this video you will also find various practise drills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tracking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/tracking.shtml\">http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/tracking.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bill&#8217;s &#8220;One-foot-at-a-time&#8221; practise drill<\/li>\n<li>Varying Casting Planes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/index.php\/ps\/reviews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht8.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht8-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht8-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are very many important points in this video, I particularly like the last one &#8220;Intended Tip Path&#8221; (which Bill likes too!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/intendedtippath.shtml\">http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/articles\/intendedtippath.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[small disclaimer: this video was shot some time ago before instructor associations made the requirement that tailing loops be demonstrated using only one fault at a time. The tailing loops in this video start out with too narrow a Casting Arc and then become a faulty force application. Tailing loops will be covered in more detail shortly!]<\/p>\n<p>And finally, if you want to resolve the Five Essentials down to One Essential, then I would agree with Rick Hartman, when he says that the most important Essential is the proper application of force. We will be talking a lot more about Rick later.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Bill Gammel for the incredible service to fly casting instruction that he has given us with his Five Essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video on the Five Essentials for an instructor association I made some years ago:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The 5 Essentials of Fly Casting (for Instructors)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DK6-BXordjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Got a question? Need some help? Try here on the Board:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.co.uk\/theboard\/viewforum.php?f=45\">http:\/\/www.sexyloops.co.uk\/theboard\/viewforum.php?f=45<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or ping me an email: <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">paul@sexyloops.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are Bill Gammel&#8217;s Five Essentials of Fly Casting. Bill is one of the most gifted instructors that I have ever met. Arguably no one has done more for flycasting instruction. A great guy and fun to fish with; I look forward to the day when he and his sons come over to Malaysia to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/the-five-essentials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Five Essentials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}