Practice makes perfect!
Graham has entered the world of casting geekdom and has had some lessons from our good friend in London Brett O’Connor. He has been putting all of Bretts advice into practice on his local canal and wanted to share it with us….Now that Brett had pointed out my multitude of faults it was time to practice and try and iron them out. And boy have you seen my ironing? Anyhow down to my local water I went which is the idyllic Grand Union Canal full of dead bodies, condoms and the occasional barge. I took my trusty 9ft #6 outfit and found a reasonable piece of open water just below a pretty hump backed bridge. That proved to be a poor choice for within 5 minutes of me executing sublime snake rolls, double speys and snap-t casts I had a small audience. Sage advice along the lines of “you’ll never get a trout with that piece of wool” to “see if you can snare a duck” to “caught a cold yet” emanated from the bridge. The final straw that broke the camel’s back was “you need to cast less and give the fish a chance” led to me upping sticks and moving elsewhere. After that my casting fell to pieces. Ah well down to Devon soon and hopefully Mark will give me some “proper” advice.
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