Mastering the art of casting is the challenge for fly fishers who want to fully enjoy the sport in all kinds of conditions. With 380 stop action photographs for visual support this book provides detailed directions explaining how to cast longer while using less force, how to make a right angle hook, how to avoid tailing loops and how to cast in the wind.
FishingMagic Verdict
This book was first published in hardback in 1992 and has gone through several editions before ending up in this more affordable paperback edition.
That’s great news for all those who want to learn how to cast a fly for there is no doubt that this is one of the best books on fly casting I have ever read.
The book begins with ‘The Four Principles’ and you begin to think, “Oh aye, here we go again, the usual standard approach explained in mechanical fashion.” Which is helpful in its own way but no different than a 101 other fly casting books.
But no, Ed Jaworowski, although sticking to the four principles, writes, ‘This is not a series of rigid instructions but a new way to look at casting.”
And it is. He dissects fly casting in a very easy to understand and, more important, easier to practice, fashion than I’ve read in any other book on fly casting.
You also have to take notice when one of the world’s greatest fly casters, Lefty Kreh, says that Ed Jaworowski is THE best teacher of fly casting he has ever known.
Lefty has taken the photographs (lots of them and all black and white but very easy to see all the action of the rod and line), and also written the foreword.
It’s an excellent book and shouldn’t be missed by any fly fisher who wants to improve his casting ability.
