Casting

Take part in a course and take part in some days of instruction.
We show you everything you need for casting.
Courses take place on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. It won't take you longer than 6
hours to learn the basics and we will certify this with a diploma.

Rudi von Essen
Savolax
S - 67035 Gunnarskog
Tel.-Nr.: 0046-570-77 30 50

Fly-fishing
is also done in contests with special fishing-rods in different disciplines in aim-
casting and distance-casting - without catching fish. These contests take place on lawns or in huge halls.
And there are many technices of casting that can be used.
There are six disciplines with plastic weights (of 7.5g and 1 8g) and three disciplines with
artificial flys and in each of them the competitors have to aim as good and to cast as far as possible.

The tradition of fly-fishing has it's origin 1864 and already in that ,year of birth' an official
competition is said to have taken place in New York. Only 16 years later there was a similar competition in London.
In the S0ies scandinavian and american sportsmen dominated this sport, but from that point of time on the Germans have been leading.,

From the beginner to the crack
To be succesflil as an angler, one has to fit his rod and tackle to the method of angling.
Everything a beginner needs is a fishing-rod with a length of 1.8m, a simple angleroll with a monofile-line with a maximum diameter of 0.2mm and a castingweight. With an equipment like this, he can try to hit aims in different distances. With a little practice, a beginner can cast
distances about SOm. For that it is not necessary to know the special techniques, a competitive sportsman needs to reach distances of 80 to 1 lOm.

Which disciplines are there in fly-fishing?

(1) fly-aim

From a platform that is 0.5m high, one has to cast onehanded at five waterbowies with a diameter of 60cm. The fly-rod is not allowed to be longer than 3 m and the bowies are situated in distances between 8 and 13 m to the platform. One has to use 2 techniques of casting and altogether to do 20 casts. For every hit with a fly one gets five points.

(2) fly - distance,

With the same rod like at fly-aim from the same platform ond has to cast one-handed again, but this time for distance.
On a special line for fishing with a fly that has to be at least iSm long and has to have a maximum weight of 38g is fixed a thicker kind of line with a tournament-fly. The competitor has 6 minutes to cast as often as possible in a cast-sector. The two best casts are valid.

(3) weight precision

The uses equipment are an one-handed rod that has a length of at least 1.37m, a stationary roll and a plastic-weight of 7. 5g. One has to aim at a cloth-target from 5 different positions lying in a quarter of a cirde. From each position one has to cast two times. It is given, which technique you have to use at which position.
              - l0m: perpendicular-cast
              - 12m: side-cast on right hand side
              - 18m: over-head-cast
              - 14m: side-cast on left hand side
              - 16m: free choice of cast
              The target has a center with a diameter of 75cm. Around that center are several other aim-rings arranged. The maximum score is 100 points.

(4) weight-aim

With the same equipment like in discipline 3 one has to hit 5 indined yellow targets.
Each of them has a diameter of 76cm and is situated at a distance between 10 and 1 8m. In two passages has to be casted two times at every aim. So it is 20 casts altogether and for every hit one gets 5 point.

(5) weight -distance, one-handed

The equipment consists of a one-hand-rod with a maximum length of 2.5m, a
stationary roll, a monofile-line with a diameter of at least 0.1 8mm and a plastic-weight of 7.5g. In a certain cast-sector one has three tries to east as far as possible.

(6) fly - distance, two-handed

From a platform the caster has to use an up to 5.2m long 50 called salmon-rod to east two-handed as far as possible. The fly-line that has to be used weights up to 120g and has a length of at least iSm. Within 7 minutes one can cast as often as possible and the both best east are valid.

(7) weight - distance, two handed

The rod is of free ehoice, but the roll has to be stationary. The line has to have a
diameter of at least 0.25mm and ends in an other line with a minimum-diameter of 0.3 Smm. With a plastie-weight of 1 8g, every easter has 3 tries and the farthest east eounts.

(8) multi � aim

Here has to be used a 1 Sg-plastic weight and a rod of free choice as well.
One has to east with a multi-roll at a target (like in diseipline 4) in a distance between 12 and 20m.

In three passages one has to east the 1 8g-plastic-weight as far as possible.
A multi-roll, a line with a diameter of at least 0.25mm and a rod of free choic

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