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my SO is planning to get me a flyfishing outfit for xmas… while i’m new to fly fishing she is not. she thinks i’ll be really good at it coz i’m a decent golfer and thinks that there must be some similarities between contolling a club and casting…. any golfers out there who fly fish??? any comparisons??? just curious, g.
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| | my SO is planning to get me a flyfishing outfit for xmas… while i’m | new to fly fishing she is not. she thinks i’ll be really good at it coz | i’m a decent golfer and thinks that there must be some similarities | between contolling a club and casting…. | | any golfers out there who fly fish??? any comparisons??? | | just curious, | | | g. I do both; I’m a fly fisher who later learned to golf. (Opposite direction from which you’re approaching it.) You’re right in that there are some similiarities. Most importantly, a good casting stroke requires precise timing just as does a good golf swing. Just as in golf, the backswing (backcast) will be shorter for shorter shots (casts) and will lengthen for longer shots (casts). Also as in golf, your weight should shift to your back foot on the backswing (backcast) then onto your front foot on the follow-through (forward cast). The big difference, in my mind, is in the use of the wrists. In golf, a great deal of the power comes from the cocking and uncocking of the wrists. You want to allow your wrists to cock naturally on the backswing, then allow centrifugal force to uncock them as the swing reaches the point of impact. In flycasting, the exact opposite is true. Too much wrist action defeats the tight loop you’re trying to create to shoot the line. The idea is to "load" the rod on the backcast or forward cast, then STOP and allow the rod to unload, thus propelling the line in a tight loop that defeats the wind and transfers maximal energy. In this way, the loading and unloading of the rod in flycasting serves the same purpose as the cocking and uncocking of the wrists in the golf swing. The difference is that the wrists should be firm and relatively inactive in the flycast while they should be loose and dynamic in the golf swing. I would recommend to you Lefty Kreh’s book on longer flycasting (it’s a yellow-covered paperback) since his approach will probably seem familiar with some of the books I’m sure you’ve read on the golf swing… Fred — Fred L. Templin
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As you all may know, I don’t flyfish but I do fish as much as I can. I find that I have a problem making enough time for both hobbies. When the weather gets nice, and everyone else is losening up the golf swing, I am out after spring chinook. Then when golfiers are hitting their mid-season strides, I find time for a few rounds between spring chinook and summer steelhead, but I feel guilty that I am missing trout fishing in Central Oregon. Then its late summer and fall and I have to choose between steelhead, trout, coho, and fall chinook. Somewhere towards the end of this list comes golf. Too many choices, but it’s nice tolive in a place where there are lots of things to keep me busy. Terry — Terry Turner My body is mostly water so I fish. 503-685-3649 by mowing the lawn. *****Opinions here are my own and not necessarily the views of Tektronix****
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my SO is planning to get me a flyfishing outfit for xmas… while i’m new to fly fishing she is not. she thinks i’ll be really good at it coz i’m a decent golfer and thinks that there must be some similarities between contolling a club and casting….
When I was a kid, probably 20 different times on one country course, I’d put my flyrod in the golf bag, drop out of rotation on number 7, and fish a small lake for awhile for big bream and small bass (I always did better with the fish than I did with the birdies!) Mac McDougald * Any opinions expressed herein The Photography Center * are not necessarily (actually, Univ. of Tenn. Knoxville 37996 * are almost CERTAINLY NOT) those (615-974-3449) * "Things are more like they are now (615-974-6435) FAX * than they’ve ever been before."
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my SO is planning to get me a flyfishing outfit for xmas… while i’m new to fly fishing she is not. she thinks i’ll be really good at it coz i’m a decent golfer and thinks that there must be some similarities between contolling a club and casting…. any golfers out there who fly fish??? any comparisons??? just curious, g.
I flyfish and golf. Actually, I flyfish much more then golf now. I don’t see any link between the two other then they are both expensive. The only thing I can say is that bring your flyrod the next time you golf, and go for some of the fish in the ponds on some of the holes. On a golf course I used to work at, there is a monster bluegill <possible state record in one of the ponds, but they wouldn’t letme fish for it. -Matthew fore! err, fish on! — -What can I say in only 4 lines?-