Once you have executed the cast and the fly line is travelling forward, is there a way to change the fly lines direction, so that, it turns in the air. Effectively putting a curve in the line?

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Smudger564

Simply put, if we move the rod forwards in a straight line we get a straight cast.
if we move the rod forward in a more curved motion we will get a curved cast.

you can also use power application to create a curve. assuming right handed caster casting with rod to the side IE parallel to ground if you underpower the cast so the loop doesn't straighten it will fall with a curve to the casters right.
If you over power the cast it will kick around to the caster left.



You can also put a curve in the line after the stop, cast the fly towards the target the draw the curve you want with the rod tip, the sooner you draw your shape the closer to the fly it will go, the later you draw it the closer to the rod tip it will be.

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Hi Frank, About 31 years ago I was taught to cast, by a man named Lynn Young in Swansea. He took me to the River Tawe near Clydach and we watched a man named Terry Graham. Now this man could cast, using a Richard Walker Superlite, which even then, could throw a very good line.

One day, Terry could'nt cover a lie near a overhanging tree, because he had a rock between him and the fish, an obstacle. So he cast out, and turned his wrist to the right, which turned the fly line to the right around the rock.

I was speechless, needless to say, the fish was his, but Icouldn't believe what I was seeing. Truly Fascinating and faultlessly executed. A Legendary man and a bloody good caster too.

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Smudger564

You can even do this with a two hander rod/line for 'nymphing' your flies in the river. A 'up-stream mend' puts your line/leader upstream from your flies. Very effective way to fish for Steelhead.

As the line comes taught, you then go into a traditional 'swing.'

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In a letter to Maurice Ingham in 1950, Richard Walker describes what he calls the curved cast. This letter was subsequently included in the groundbreaking book: "Drop Me A Line".

Walker describes the cast as:

[I]"Useful for upstream fishing under your own bank. As the loop unrolls in a partially horizontal plane, as it does in this cast, it is possible, by dropping the rod point at the right moment to cause the cast to fall in any one of the following positions:"

Here is shown a whole series of spots along a clock face where the fly will alight.

"This gives you some terrific advantages; you can throw your fly around corners, and lay it with the gut away from a feeding fish where they might be shy of having it over their heads."

Walker was an incredibly accurate caster, especially on small streams. He often would cause consternation at fly accuracy tournaments by casting around the circuit with an accuracy that none of the competitors could achieve.

He would never enter any form of competion however. He hated that.

There are several ways of putting a curve onto the line.

I often use the method Frank describes, which is useful for kicking the leader round a corner.

For overhead casts I generally use an aerial mend which is really quite simple. For a curve to the right, once the loop is on its way, just move the rod tip right, then left again so that it ends up facing the target. If you do this immediately the loop is on its way, the curve will travel to the end of the line. You can as Ron Clay and Dick walker describes, drop the curve where you want it.

The later in the cast you make the sideways motion of the rod tip, the closer to you the curve will appear.

Alex

Smudger,

If you can, try and buy a copy or get your hands on a copy of Jason Borger's - Nature of Fly Casting book. It covers an awful lot of different casts for every situation imaginable and explains the how and why also. It's a great read and I imagine you will throughly enjoy it based on your questions

There is a cst I use on streams , called the "ariel mend" I don't ust it often, but it is usefull in the event of a distance cast being needed, which is hardly ever, I don't know if it is what you are looking for, but it's quite simple. The same as you mend the line while it lies on the water, you do it while the fly line is still in the air. It is far less intrusive on spooky fish, and if done with enough aggression, can move the fly to a diffent spot to its trajectory.

you lot are p1shed the line needs to straighten at the end of the stroke in order to change direction in an overhead cast.

if thats mid cast then yes.

I think Tom Sails might have wished that had been the case!

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