In the movie A River Runs Through It Brad Pitt is seen doing a cast so beautiful that it makes a grown fly fisherman cry. This cast was named as the “shadow cast” and it was actually performed by Jason Borger, who runs the Fly Casting Institute.

Now the Jazz & Fly Fishing has developed a new, more effective Shadow Cast.

What a pile of steaming guff

All that effort throwing the line left and right, scares the fish, throws
the line in the wrong direction, adds nothing to the cast at all.

It does mean you spend more time not fishing though so it's good for catch and release

This has got to be a wind up right? Please tell me this is a wind up?

Is it called the shadow cast because when the person demonstrating it turns around for feedback all that's left are the shadows of the people watching who have realised it's a waste of time and buggered off?

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It says it all in the title at the start of the vid, advanced "TRICK" casting.
Just an elaborate double spay cast with plenty of thrashing the water.

A load of daft show-boating followed by a badly executed forward cast...

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i hope you dont mind me saying but this was the worst demonstration i have ever seen of what is actually a very functional and beautifull cast,

it makes the cast look stupid, if you look at Micheal Mauri's or Stefan Dombaj you will see the components of the cast performed correctly, most importantly the rod tip rising to form the D loop without which the cast cannot work.

i'm sorry if this sounds harsh but performed without skill these casts look rediculous and they are not.

Have a look at this instead.

If you trained a dog to swim your fly over and spit it out, you'd probably cause less disturbance.

Referring to first link.

I've watched Steven Dombaj on video and others doing these type of casts in the flesh. If I could find a use for them I would learn them and as I regularly I fish in some of the worst vegetation anywhere I find uses for all sorts of line manipulations. However, try as I might, I simply can't think of a use for these.

as a defendant of aerial dynamic casts, there are just a couple of principle uses which, as far as can be determined, originate from casts evolved to cope with the restriced space in the gorges of the austrian alps, these casts are old in origin,

one of the benefits is kicking the water from a dry fly before the anchor, where a back cast is impossible this is sometimes the only option, its done in front of the body without..unlike the first vid...touching the water,

another advantage is the ability to change direction massively and with little effort, again the change of direction takes place in front of the body so the D loop is perfectly aligned to the target,

from the fist vid there may be a premisconception that there is too much contact with the water, these are aerial casts, the point is that they should be aerial away from the surface of the water, only the leader touching the water very briefly, the fly shouldnt get a chance to get wet,

the more complex ones are used very rarely but in there are snap z which is just an aerial snap t, and various twists on snake rolls etc, with i find a whole lot simpler at the end of a drift than umpteen false casts,

i got to say these casts look utterly pointless until you see them used in a fast current with the accompanying reason for doing it, bit like a beginner trying to see the value of an aerial mend on grass without the current.

besides, there is writing and there is poetry.

...and ain't that cast the doggerels b0llocks