9.    LINKS TO FLY CASTING AND FLY FISHING HOME PAGES

Go To New Stuff

a.       Danny Walls, Owner, Flyfish List  Danny Walls' Fly Fishing List

b.      Royal Casting Club of Belgium

c.       The Physics of Fly Casting

d.     LONG BEACH CASTING CLUB

e.     FFF Instructor Certification Workshops

f.     Ken Baron's United Kingdom Fishing & Casting Home Page

g.    BROWN'S OF TWEEDSIDE, Casting and fishing

h.     STEVE AND TIM RAJEFF'S SCHOOL OF FLY FISHING WITH PAGES OF CASTING TIPS AND FILMS OF EXPERT CASTING STROKES

i.     AN INTERESTING PAGE OF EUROPEAN FLY CASTING INSTRUCTION,          INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION AND COMMENTARY ON EUROPEAN CASTING. SVEN OSTERMANN is the host and web master.

j.     FEDERATION OF FLY FISHERS

k.    FFF BASIC and MASTER CASTING INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS, including performance and knowledge tests.

l.     FFF EUROPE - BASIC FLYCASTING INSTRUCTOR TEST

m.   FFF EUROPE - CERTIFIED MASTER FLYCASTING  INSTRUCTOR TEST

n.    GUNTER FEUERSTEIN'S FLYCASTING HOMEPAGE (NOW IN ENGLISH)

o.    INTERNATIONAL CASTING FEDERATION

p.    SUNSHINE FLY CASTING CLUB INC.   (Melbourne, Australia)

q.    JOELS FLY FISHING PAGE    This is a well done personal page which includes a   reference to a remarkable archive of casting and fishing conversations by expert and knowledgeable casters, some of whose names you will recognize. To find the archive go to Joel's page and click on his "info about the flyfishing list servers". This will take you to a page entitled "Flyfishing list Servers info.There you punch Flyfish list server to reach the Flyfish home page. On the Flyfish home page you find a box labeled FF@archives. This brings you to a page entitled "Whats in the FLYFISH Archive?"  This archive has a search engine built into it by Joel Dunn, your host.  If you search for "Fly casting" you will find a number of interesting conversations over the years -you search each individual year - which will explore aspects of  making the rod work. These are knowlegeable and opinionated people but you should find it interesting and  instructive.

You can also search for "bonefish", "bass bugs" or any thing your little heart desires and who knows what fascinating conversations  will appear.

I have detailed here the entire path to the archive in order to allow you to notice the other resources Joel Dunn has provided.

r.    SCARBOROUGH FLY & BAIT CASTING ASSOCIATION

This is a very active casting club which has weekly winter indoor sessions in a school gymnasium in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, next door to Toronto. They are busy casting and fishing in the summer as well.

s. San Jose Fly Casters  This active fishing, casting and tournament casting club has recently persuaded San Jose, California to build casting ponds and is conducting four levels of casting instruction and active casting games participation as well as a full schedule of fly tying, fishing and conservation activities. 

t. GRAIG SPOLEK'S PAGE

Graig Spolek is a professor of Mechanical Engineering who has done significant work in the analysis of fly rods aimed at forming a realistic fly rod calibration system. He has now joined the net world with a home page which includes an extensive bibliography of scientific study of the fly rod by Dr. Spolek and many others.

u. ROBERTO PRAGLIOLA's page on the TLT casting method.

Roberto Pragliola is an Italian fishing and casting personage who has created this interesting web site devoted to his TLT fly casting method. The page describes a long stroke cast with thrusting of the rod at the end of the stroke and purports to be a completely new advance in the art of casting. We are trying to get a video of the stroke and will then compare his new stroke with the old strokes. Roberto's web site is impressively done and worth the price of admission. I urge experimenting with this method and welcome any comments.

v. GORAN ANDERSSON'S PAGE on the switch cast

Goran Andersson is a Swedish caster who works with the Loop tackle people. He has an interesting and informative web page (part of the Loop display)demonstrating the Underhand Switch Cast. There is some discussion as to whether this cast was in use before Goran began spreading good news about it about ten years ago but whether he invented it or not it is a good cast to know  and we appreciate the chance to learn more about it from this accomplished caster.

 

w. FLY CASTING PROGRAM AIDS WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER

Studies show  that the light repetitive motion of fly casting can be   beneficial in reducing the pooling of fluids following a mastectomy. There are a number of volunteer programs around the country aimed at supplying the fly casting experience and instruction to post mastectomy women. The linked web site describes these programs and contains an 800 number for further information.

x. TROUTS AND SEASONS OF THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN JAPAN

This award winning English and Japanese language personal page of Yoshikazu Fujioka features  poetic references to the fly  fishing experience in Japan with pictures to match as well as other information of interest to fly fishers everywhere including fly tying on the Japanese archipeligo.  The links page leads to   otherwise undiscoverable fly fisher  web sites around the globe.

y. THE PAUL ARDEN FLY FISHING EXPERIENCE - ADVANCED FLY CASTING TIPS

This is a virtual text book on the web of fly casting tips by a knowledgeable British fly casting instructor and author. He candidly contrasts the British way with the other way on many of  the casting techniques he describes in these  49 pages of   casting stuff that he charges 25 pounds an hour to teach in person.

 

z. GOLDEN GATE ANGLING AND CASTING CLUB of San Francisco

The Golden Gate club is one of the storied sites of fishing and casting action over the nearly departed 20th Century. No flyfisher should visit San Francisco without seeing Angler's Lodge and the three casting pools. Every day there will be casters, fly tiers or people just hanging out and polishing their fish stories. They even have a spot where one can cast in a sort of well in the water and simulate casting waist deep in a river.

 

aa.TAMPA BAY FLY CASTING CLUB

The Tampa Bay Fly Casting Club is a potent center of  heavy duty casting in the salt. They feature an annual Big Gun Shootout casting contest with innovative games, some combining accuracy and distance casts in the same event. Their page also features   interesting commentary on the art of casting a fly line.

bb. JAPAN CASTING ASSOCIATION

The Japan Casting Association has put up a web page and has begun an English language version.

cc, NORWEGIAN CASTING FEDERATION

The Norwegian page is in Norwegian.

dd. GERMAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION

The German page is in German.

ee. SWISS CASTING FEDERATION

The Swiss page is under construction.

ff.   BILL'S KNOTS, BILL NASH'S PAGE

This is not strictly a casting page but it is an interesting fishing and casting page and has worthwhile comments on aspects of casting.

gg. BASIC CASTING and   DOUBLE HAUL

These are a couple of pages of casting instruction posted by New Zealand Fishing a commerical site devoted to - you guessed it - fishing in New Zealand. The casting information is worth seeing and they have very nice color pictures. It appears that the casting information is a work in progress and will be expanded from time to time. The pictures load instantaneously.  

hh.IMPROVED FLY CASTING

This is Rudy van Duijnhoven's personal fly casting page with hints for better casting.

ii. SINGLE HANDED SPEY CASTING

Scottish angler Ally Gowans teaches spey casting with the single handed rod.

jj. FFF EUROPE CASTING TIPS

Casting tips for leg position, improved backhand cast and the vertical bow cast.

kk. The Peninsula Fly Fishers,

This website, from  the San Francisco Peninsula, features a useful discussion of considerations in buying a new fly rod and news of  their free fly casting lesson program.

ll.  AMERICAN CASTING ASSOCIATION

The ACA  is the coordinating body for organized fly and plug casting in the United States and Canada  and our  North American link to the International Casting Federation with its' world championships and, perhaps, someday, to the Olympic Games.

mm. Coralinn Fly Fishing and Casting Association Inc. ,

This club in Tasmania is on the right track. They fish and they play casting games so they can fish better. Their website features a photo of their casting pond and they play games twice a month as well as fishing a lot. 

nn. GRANDE RONDE ANGLING AND CASTING SOCIETY

The Grande Ronde Angling and Casting Society is newly formed for the purpose of   building and maintaining a casting pond where the Grande Ronde and Snake rivers come together, which is also where the states of  Washington, Idaho and Oregon come together. See the Grande Ronde page for details of  the  casting games and other activities  available in this steelhead and salmon paradise.

oo.  CHICAGO ANGLING AND CASTING CLUB

The Chicago Angling and Casting Club is active at the Lincoln Park casting pier in Chicago with a schedule of casting games and other fishing related activities. 

pp.   THE NARROW LOOP PAGE

This is a bilingual Danish/English web site. FFF Europe certified instructor Morten Wadstrom  includes  the Zen of fly casting with his instruction.  He has added  worthwhile videos (moving pictures of  casting strokes) and pictures to his discussion of casting and casting strokes. No other real moving pictures of   casting strokes have been discovered on the web. If you find any please let us know.

qq.    JIM CHAPRALIS ON TOURNAMENT CASTING

Jim Chapralis, who has operated a fishing travel business in the Chicago area for many moons, is an old time tournament caster- I have found his name in tournament results from the early fifties - and he has received space in the Fly Anglers On Line website for a complete round of  instruction for beginning the enjoyment of  Dry Fly, Trout Fly, Bass Bug, Angler's Fly Distance, Single Hand Fly Distance, the double haul  and a practice regime for making your fly rod a pal instead of  a stranger. We must thank   Jim and Deanna Birkholm  for making this available as a permanent ( we hope)   archive on their  comprehensive and outspoken FLY ANGLERS ON LINE . There are some good picture sequences of the double haul.

rr. ARKANSAS FLY ANGLERS CASTING FORUM

This is an interesting question and answer forum on casting subjects and is a part of  the Arkansas Fly Anglers website. One warning - if you are on the casting forum and elect to see the rest of the  site you need to find the FFM forum button to get back. There is an associated general forum by John W. Wilson that is worth watching and tends to deal with casting subjects.

ss.    FLOYD DEAN    is a leading tournament caster who is also an FFF master certified casting instructor. His page features an ongoing stream of  his published and unpublished articles covering aspects of casting as well as a schedule of  his casting demonstrations at sports shows and fishing related events around the country.

tt.    BRITISH FLY CASTING CLUB is a newly launched (2003) club for freshwater casting enthusiasts.  The club  conducts and promotes  fly rod casting games, including single and double hand distance games and accuracy games and will be posting news on it's website.

uu.    UNITED KINGDOM SURFCASTING FEDERATION  is a long standing group involved in surfcasting and surf tackle  casting games.

vv.    THE WAYWARD FLYFISHER is a whimsical treatment of  our beloved fly fishing habit by a literary type buried in the bowels of  the computer world. The author provides an alternative approach to fly fishing and fly casting. He reminds me of the   fly fisher/authors  who stumbled into their writing skill from a different profession.

ww.  ALLY GOWANS , a British fly fisher and instructor offers an interesting and explicit series of  elementary casting lessons on line.

xx.  SPEY PAGES  is a comprehensive commercial site mastered by Dana Sturn and devoted to the spey  scene. There are video clips of  many spey casts as well as discussions, instruction hints and everything about the spey rod and it's devotees. It contains the current FFF spey casting instructor examination. (2004)

yy.    UNKNOWN JAPANESE CASTING SITE  with good photos and film clips of classic single and double handed casting.

uu.    CASTING DRILLS BY CAPT. TOM ROWLAND  is a useful and informative guide to  eleven casting drills that can magnify your efficiency on the water when you take that expensive dream trip.

vv.    NEW ZEALAND FISHING  has one of the best short description of the vital elements of the basic casting stroke that I have seen. It is worth reading and saving no matter what your level of accomplishment may be.   It has been up for some time and I have no idea why it has taken this long to post this.

ww. VIRTUAL FLY CASTING   is a comprehensive exposition of fly casting techniques, teaching methods and technical information on fly casting topics from academics and other experts. It is hosted by three FFF certified casting instructors and is one of the most elaborate pure casting sites on the web with very little, if any, commercial activity. There are film clips of casting , a bulletin board and  lots more casting related stuff.

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