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I am So. Very. Frustrated.
I drank the Spey Kool-Aid a year ago when I took a beginning Spey class from George Cook up in Fairbanks. Since then, between snows and deep freezes and trips to Washington and Colorado, I've bought three switch rods - a 3 weight Echo SR., and two TCX switches, 5119, and 7119....
...and I can't cast any of them worth a damn.
40....maybe 50 feet. I am consistently an embarrassment....full of collision loops and other disasters. My cack-hand cast is better than my strong side cast, which normally goes about 40 feet and crashes in a mess. Small tight loops...laser-like delivery.... Those are things that make other people smile. Not me. When one cast goes well (50 feet!!) , I haven't the slightest idea why - but I can't duplicate it.
I need to pay someone to help me.
In a few days I'll leave San Juan Island and head down to the Mt. Hood area. Does anyone know anyone who can help me sort out this crazy mess that I've become?
Tom Larimer's site isn't taking any bookings through the end of the year...but I'd be willing to drive out of my way for someone of his teaching caliber. I appreciate your recommendations, but they'll need to be a real instructor.
I'm a mess and I so want to feel that lovely "thunk" you all get to feel as your cast stretches tight before it hits the water. I'm willing to work at it and pay for it.
Help!
James
360-378-zero-nine-four-nine
I drank the Spey Kool-Aid a year ago when I took a beginning Spey class from George Cook up in Fairbanks. Since then, between snows and deep freezes and trips to Washington and Colorado, I've bought three switch rods - a 3 weight Echo SR., and two TCX switches, 5119, and 7119....
...and I can't cast any of them worth a damn.
40....maybe 50 feet. I am consistently an embarrassment....full of collision loops and other disasters. My cack-hand cast is better than my strong side cast, which normally goes about 40 feet and crashes in a mess. Small tight loops...laser-like delivery.... Those are things that make other people smile. Not me. When one cast goes well (50 feet!!) , I haven't the slightest idea why - but I can't duplicate it.
I need to pay someone to help me.
In a few days I'll leave San Juan Island and head down to the Mt. Hood area. Does anyone know anyone who can help me sort out this crazy mess that I've become?
Tom Larimer's site isn't taking any bookings through the end of the year...but I'd be willing to drive out of my way for someone of his teaching caliber. I appreciate your recommendations, but they'll need to be a real instructor.
I'm a mess and I so want to feel that lovely "thunk" you all get to feel as your cast stretches tight before it hits the water. I'm willing to work at it and pay for it.
Help!
James
360-378-zero-nine-four-nine