Nothing sexy

When I started flyfishing I learned hauling fast, I read about double hauling but never really learned. On that time I didn’t see any advantage on that. I got good with rolling etc, anything which start from water. Some casts I did and then talked with more experience fisherman about some casts that how you do those. Answer was that you have been casting that whole day allready. So I’m pretty much self-learned about casting basics and some more.

When you get better you want to learn more. I found really interesting to watch my casting with slow-motion, not because what my hand is doing but what rod and line are doing when I’m casting. I know my hand, I have found out that I have some issues which I need to fix. One is that quite often my elbow is too high and open. Another one is about my shoulder, basicly those are connected so when I fix one it should fix another also. Problem is that I have had injury in the shoulder so when it is in ”pain” my casting falls apart. And that was issue on my las fishing day.

There was nothing sexy in the loops. I was using two heavy nymphs so first I blame those about my issues. I made probably sexiest and most beautiful roll-casting in the world. Except that I was doing aerial casting so …… LOL. Tailing loop and everything else what is possible to do, not really proud of that but it made me think about more about my casting. I noticed that my shoulder opened and went up, I used more upper body to cast and also rotated it. But it was nothing like you see people doing when distance casting, it was more rotating and opening the whole thing. It was like spinning or something like that but with flyrod. I try to fix it but my shoulder told NO. It was kind of stuck and prevented casting normally, so I automatically change it but then loops go out of this world, I was in the dark side. If you want to get idea what I mean, take ball and cast it but……. loose the ball when your hand is straight up. (it is like girl throwing a ball, sorry ladies).

 Now you say it has nothing to do with flycasting but try casting move and compare it ball casting. Pay attentation to how you shoulder moves. Same muscles or tendons are moving and doing the job. I origanally injuried my shoulder with reindeer but it was finished when playing badminton.

And about double haul… it is life changer. I have enjoyed so much more about casting and fishing with dries when doing double haul. Longer cast with shorter line, bigger fishes. I have now 8 months to study and explore my casting and issues with shoulder, sometimes it get ”tired” because of wrong casting and then casting gets even more difficult but I’ll fix it.

This week I have been busy with reindeer round-ups.

Have a nice weekend

Mika from Finland