Fly Fishing & Fly Casting Instruction in Cumbria with Lee Cummings

 

What do I teach and what could you expect from a casting lesson with me?

Lets take for example the scenario of a novice learning the Overhead cast............

I would set to work right on the heart of the issue, of which is learning how to move the Rod Tip and line correctly through a Straight Line as possible, between two fixed positions.

A very simplistic exercise would then be used to focus the eyes periodically on what the tip is actually doing as they cast.

During this practice exercise the tip pathway will inevitably straighten "we are only talking minutes here" and if we continue to do this we will automatically note that the line we are casting is straight, pointed and looking really fantastic already.

All the while as you rightfully enjoy what it feels like to cast a nice loop of line under tension, all those detrimental issues of fly casting that have frustrated and usually held people back for years, are becoming more and more insignificant to you by the second, your brain is alight with firing the right commands to the muscles and you have a smile on your face, for the first time you realize, not only can you do this, but you are actually doing it exceptionally well too....!

 

Give them the correct equipment, show them properly from the start and they will thrive.

The main casts I demonstrate and teach are outlined below.

Single Hand Rod Casting

Roll casts
Jump Roll
Roll Cast Pick Up Into Basic Overhead

False Casting and Changing Direction
Straight line accuracy
Shooting Line
Single Haul
Double Haul
Hauled Roll
Hauled Jump Roll

Single Spey
Double Spey
Snake Roll
Circle C Spey Casts
Snap Tee and Snap Z Style Spey casts
Sunk Line Casting
Crossed Anchor Casts

Curving Line
Aerial Mends
Hooking Around Corners
Slack Line Cast
Altering Rod Plane
Pendulum Cast

Galway Cast
Belgium Cast
Combination Casting techniques for use in the Salt

Advanced Distance Casting techniques to Competition Level

using either Full lines or Shooting heads

Double Handed Spey Casting

Static Roll Cast
Dynamic Roll Cast "Jump Roll"
Single Spey
Double Spey
Snap Tee
Circle C
Snake Roll
Aerial Double Spey
Shooting Head Techniques
Sunk Line Techniques
Skajit Casting Techniques