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Excerpts From: The Fly Cast: Concepts &
Comments
Doug Macnair
Introduction
I frequently receive questions dealing with the fly cast,
usually from folks new to the sport who find making a decent
cast difficult at best. In some cases, the questions stem
from those who have fly fished for years, but who have never
mastered the cast.
I believe that folks who are called to the gentle
art should be enabled to do it. So, several years ago, I sat
down and wrote a manuscript on fly casting. After extensive
research into what the experts offer, I found, what I believed
to be, areas where descriptions of “how to do it”
could be clarified or said another way. When I was finished,
I believed the work contained enough new thoughts to warrant
its publication; unfortunately, I was told that fly fishing
is a “niche” sport, and unless I was willing to
front somewhere between 15K and 20K, publishers said the gamble
wasn’t worth it.
I did, however, have clients—clients who
believed that I could give them a head start in developing
their fly casting abilities. But regardless of what I am able
to have a student achieve in a 2-day period, the age-old problem
of the learning curve sets in quickly without immediate practice.
Excerpts should be carried with you outside
during practice sessions. (The booklet I issue is spiral bound
for ease of page reference.) Whenever you make a mistake,
quit casting and refer to the booklet. To continue casting
without referring to the book is stupid—you are doing
nothing but reinforcing error.
In offering this work to you, the interested
fly fisher, these instructions apply. I am pleased to offer
these basic techniques to you without cost or obligation,
save one: I expect you to protect my copyright. Print out
Excepts and enjoy … And if it helps stay tuned….
Thanks to Adobe and the PDF format and especially Adobe Reader
(free), I will soon offer the entire book on the Internet
in a CDROM format for a more than reasonable cost. For now,
read on, print out, practice, and become a competent fly fisher.
Douglas G. Macnair
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