Joan Wulff's New Fly-Casting Techniques by Joan Wulff (English) Paperback Book

Description: Joan Wulff's New Fly-Casting Techniques by Joan Wulff This second edition of Joan Wulffs New Fly-Casting Techniques brings even more to the table for sport-fishing and hobbyists. A stem-to-stern revision of one of the true classics of fly-fishing, this is more than a second edition. This is a true revamping of content, complete with new illustrations, photographs that will illuminate Joan Wulffs ext FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This second edition of Joan Wulffs New Fly-Casting Techniques brings even more to the table for sport-fishing and hobbyists. A stem-to-stern revision of one of the true classics of fly-fishing, this is more than a second edition. This is a true revamping of content, complete with new illustrations, photographs that will illuminate Joan Wulffs extraordinary life, and a complete rewrite of the text. This is a richly illustrated guide that offers precise terms for every part of the cast, with sections on line speed, improving accuracy and distance, loop control, and much more. Back Cover This remarkable book is for everyone who fishes with a fly rod--or wants to learn. In its first edition, Joan Wulffs Fly-Casting Techniques became an instant classic, revolutionizing the art form of fly casting and changing how an entire generation approached the sport. Now, with Joan Wulffs New Fly Casting Techniques, Joan brings her pioneering set of casting "mechanics" to a new audience, offering precise descriptive terms for every part of the cast. Sections are included on improving accuracy and distance, loop control, shooting lines, aerial mending, the double haul, correcting common mistakes, and more. With improvements and refinements on her original techniques, and with a set of extraordinary drawings by David Shepherd, this becomes the most comprehensive book ever written on fly casting. Author Biography Joan Wulff is the first instructor to unravel the mystery of fly casting to the point of pioneering a set of mechanics. These were presented in her book, Joan Wulffs Fly Casting Techniques (1987). She is also the author of Joan Wulffs Fly Fishing: Expert Advice from a Womans Perspective (1991), and Joan Wulffs Fly Casting Accuracy (1997). Table of Contents Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Chapter One: To Cast a FlyChapter Two: The Area of Focus - Your Rod Hand and Arm Chapter Three: Basic DisciplineChapter Four: The Visual ConnectionChapter Five: False Casting Chapter Six: Tailoring Your LoopsChapter Seven: Shooting Line Chapter Eight: Double and Single Hauls Chapter Nine: Casting for Distance Chapter Ten: Variation - The OvalChapter Eleven: Fishing AdaptationsChapter Twelve: WindChapter Thirteen: The Saltwater "Quick Cast" Chapter Fourteen: Tackle Chapter Fifteen: Fly Casting Without a Fly RodChapter Sixteen: Practice -- Keep it Interesting Chapter Seventeen: An Introduction to Spey CastingChapter Eighteen: Casting with a HandicapChapter Nineteen: Introducing Youngsters to Fly Casting Afterword: Perfect Casts Review "If youre going to get one casting book, get this one, period!" - Fly Rod & Reel; "Joan Wulffs New Fly-Casting Techniques is a bible for fly fishers around the world who wish to perfect the art of fly casting and understand the techniques and mechanics so as to master them. With clear instruction aided by very useful diagrams, this is definitely a book all fly anglers should have on their shelves." - Paul Sharman, Fish & Fly;This is a thoroughly practical manual, with Wulffs wisdom adroitly counterbalanced by numerous diagrams from illustrator David Shepherd, as well as photographs of the author throughout her rich life in fishing ... the combination of crisp text and illustrations makes this a very absorbable read ... Highly recommended. -- Jeffrey Prest * Trout Fisherman * Long Description This remarkable book is for everyone who fishes with a fly rod-or wants to learn. In its first edition, Joan Wulffs Fly-Casting Techniques became an instant classic, revolutionizing the art form of fly casting and changing how an entire generation approached the sport. Now, with Joan Wulffs New Fly Casting Techniques, Joan brings her pioneering set of casting "mechanics" to a new audience, offering precise descriptive terms for every part of the cast. Sections are included on improving accuracy and distance, loop control, shooting lines, aerial mending, the double haul, correcting common mistakes, and more. With improvements and refinements on her original techniques, and with a set of extraordinary drawings by David Shepherd, this becomes the most comprehensive book ever written on fly casting. Review Quote "If youre going to get one casting book, get this one, period, exclamation point."--Fly Rod & Reel Feature A richly illustrated guide that reveals technical secrets of the cast, line speed, improving accuracy and distance, loop control, and more -- thoroughly revised and updated. Excerpt from Book Chapter One: To Cast a Fly In boring literal terms, fly casting is the back and forth motion of the hand and arm with a fly rod and fly line, with the goal of creating open-ended unrolling loops to carry an artificial fly to a target area.To those of us who love the sport of fly fishing, it is so much more! It is a feeling of an inanimate tool coming to life in your hand! This feeling may be only in your hand and arm when making short casts, but will start in the tips of your toes and move through your whole body when making long ones. Something about it reaches deep inside you; it is physically satisfying. Unrolling loops are a thing of beauty and can be mesmerizing, and the satisfaction of presenting a fly perfectly to a rising trout or a moving bonefish has no equal in this sport. UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE!The basic difference between fly casting and all other casting lies in the relative weight of the lure and the line. You can throw a bait-casting or spinning lure by hand, almost as far as you can cast it because it is a contained weight like a rock, with a "string" of weightless monofilament behind it.As a fly fisher, your lures will be essentially weightless: the imitations of insects and underwater creatures are made with materials like fur, feathers, tinsel, and yarn. Have you ever tried to throw a feather by hand? It is impossible. It has no weight and lots of air resistance. In fly casting, the weight youll cast is in the fly line. (You can literally cast a fly line by hand - no rod!) The fly, then, goes along as a passenger, at the end of a monofilament leader. This "leader" is the nearly invisible, tapering connection between the thick fly line and the fly.Because the fly line is long and flexible, its weight cannot flex the rod with just the short, snapping wrist-motion used in bait casting or spinning. The fly-casting stroke must have length. It is a straight-line movement by the rod hand, in an acceleration to a STOP! The speed of the acceleration, plus the weight of the fly line, flexes/bends the rod, from the tip downward. This is called "loading" the rod. When the acceleration is ended and the butt section of the rod is stopped, the bent rod unloads, with a spring-like action. The relatively limber rod tip flips over, taking with it the inches of line closest to it. As the tip oscillates back to straight, those inches of line form the beginning of what becomes an open-ended unrolling loop with upper and lower levels of line. The formation of a loop is primary to each casting stroke. It must be done both backward (the backcast) and forward (the forward cast) for a complete cast, with the loops unrolling directly opposite each other. TWO STROKESThere is no other sport that uses two strokes. Other sports, which are mostly ball sports, have you set up slowly on the back-swing and then whack the heck out of the ball to drive it forward. Not so in fly casting: the speed and power must be equal backward and forward, for a given length of line. If you dont use force on the backcast and then whack the heck out of the forward cast, your leader and fly will crack like a whip and you may lose the fly in the process. Because nothing in our lives gives us practice in throwing backward, it becomes the first challenge in learning to fly cast! BASIC TACKLE The fly line is the focal point of your tackle. You will choose the weight and design (the distribution of the weight) to suit the fishing you plan to do, and then choose a rod designated to cast that weight. This combination of rod and line is referred to as "an X-weight outfit". The TACKLE chapter will give you expanded information on choices for various species. However, the ideal outfit to use for this casting instruction is a #6: a #6 weight fly rod with a #6 weight-forward floating fly line. This is an all-purpose trout fishing outfit...as well as an all-purpose learning outfit. It is heavy enough to give you a range of casting distances from short to long but light enough, overall, to keep you from tiring too quickly in practice UNLESS you are a woman. Women have approximately 55% of the upper body strength of men, pound for pound. Scary! It means that the weight of the tackle we use, though it is measured in ounces, can be critical. In my generation, the weight of bamboo and glass rods (4-1/2oz.) was the primary factor in keeping women out of fly fishing. Even today, with the comparative lightness of modern materials (graphite and boron) we still have choices to make. Choose rods that are at the lighter end of the suggested weights in each line category, until experience tells you why you want something heavier. AND choose a rod with a relatively small-diameter grip. (See Area of Focus: the Grip) Grips with uncomfortably large diameters were a second factor in keeping women from fly fishing. Details ISBN1493022644 Author Joan Wulff Short Title JOAN WULFFS NEW FLY-CASTING TE Pages 224 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 1493022644 ISBN-13 9781493022649 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Imprint The Lyons Press Place of Publication Guilford DEWEY 799.124 Country of Publication United States Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-05-25 NZ Release Date 2017-05-25 US Release Date 2017-05-25 UK Release Date 2017-05-25 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Edition Description 2nd edition Audience General AU Release Date 2016-06-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137149628;

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