How To Be A Lousy Fly Caster

September 14th, 2007 in Paid Fly Fishing Handbooks |

This tongue-in-cheek ebook describes about 22 common fly casting mistakes and how to avoid and correct them. But “How to be a Lousy Fly Caster” is not a “text only” book - it contains over a hundred useful and, sometimes, funny illustrations, because (as the author says) “[r]esearch has revealed that, on average, a picture is worth 462 words”.

The author’s humorous “reverse-teaching” approach concentrates on “22 mistakes you can learn NOT to do”. As he says:

Compare your casting with the mistakes described in the book. When you find a match, you are a few practice sessions away from eliminating the problem and increasing your casting skill.

Once you learn that you’re making an error, you know how NOT to make that error. It will take practice, of course. As you begin to master a better way to do something, don’t forget how to do it badly. Practice alternating the good and the bad technique. The ability of doing something wrong can come in handy.

If you discover things you have always been doing right, learn how to do those things wrong.

If this makes sense to you, or you are intrigued, give this unusual and interesting electronic, downloadable, book a try. At only $19.97 not much can go wrong …