How Far Are You Really Casting?

Don Oliver/Fishing The Four Corners
Jan 19, 2006, 06:00 am

After a day on the river fly fishing, is your arm and shoulder tired and sore? If it is, is it from fighting fish all day? Could it be from netting that 100th 5-pound trout on the San Juan River? As much as 'we who fly fish' want non-fly fishers to believe our sore arms and shoulders are from catching and landing fish, the truth is, our soreness comes from casting.

As I was applying heat to my sore shoulder and arm, as I didn't want to waste the ice for my after-fishing scotch on something as trivial as sore body parts, I began to wonder, 'Just how much line do fly fishermen cast in a day?' To calculate this number, I came up with two ways to arrive at what is now something very important to know."

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Great article about fly casting! Click on the title of this post to view the entire article as posted in the Farmington, New Mexico Daily Times!

Don Oliver is a licensed fly fishing guide in the Four Corners. Reach him at www.donoliverfishingguide.com or 800 634-4811.

-Michael

PS: Thanks also goes out to The MidCurrent Fly Fishing News as I first came across this article at their site: http://www.midcurrent.com/news/