Aye th'karraty poonch 😊

Y'know, I'm fortunate in my life to known and learned from real fly fishing luminaries. True legends in the sport. I'm ashamed to say that I'm only just now hearing about James Tomlinson. What a grand gentleman and scholar. So grateful to have found this video. ❤

So logical yet so few have discovered this. Thank you so much

Constantly cutting the cameras from back to front keeps us from seeing the whole stroke as one.  Very frustrating.

Always impressed with your videos, but would love a clip of how the loops look back and front.

Tom, it’s unfortunate you are constantly changing camera views! We can’t get a full stroke without cutting into a different angle. We need to be able to see several backcasts and forward casts with no interruptions. Please upload again. Thanks.

That amazing. I see what you are  doing. Thanks James

Fabulous technique. It seems strenthous, bearing in mind your fishing all day. Jim

I think this is all a computer-generated simulation.  It’s all fake!  How do I know?  I’ve visited Scotland 5 times, spent over 15 weeks total, and I’ve never seen blue sky like that!  😂

Master fly caster , very helpful video

The fundamentals of movement are universally connected—it ultimately comes down to activating core strength and harnessing large muscle groups rather than depending on the smaller arm muscles.

For years I’ve cast a wf full line ouf of my rod with about 15 ft of backing.. I
don’t know how far I’ve never measured it !!

Some horrible jealous people commenting. Not only is this man hitting those distances he has the tournament pedigree to back it up.  He  has no need to lie having achieved everything in tournament fly casting.  Great video.

at 12mins he finishes a cast claimed to be 175ft. Starts to strip in line, does 41 strips of roughly 2ft. That is around 82ft of line.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  This gentleman is obviously really good at this, and he reiterates his technique endlessly throughout the video.  Unfortunately, as someone else has already mentioned, cutting the camera angle from front to back made it essentially IMPOSSIBLE to visually appreciate what Mr. Tomlinson was trying to drive home.  That not only defeated the purpose of the video, it makes one potentially dizzy just watching it.  I sure wish this could have been done over.

I wish he would give more details like how much line he is carrying, rod, line specs and any line treatments.  He's done competing   I don't see why he wouldn't reveal these details.

I understand that there are certain skeptics about the casting and perhaps are justified and perhaps they aren’t. I enjoyed watching this gentleman cast and he is absolutely correct as we get older, we lose muscle mass and matter what we do. I liked his 140° angle casting(and that’s by my guesstimate not measured close paren and also the way he uses his full body – – good movements for a senior person; and as I said, perhaps his line is going as far as he says, who knows? Perhaps he has a tail wind – – so what it’s still not a bad cast. Thank you for your entertainment and your thoughts, John.

To the film editor, you are constantly switching cameras and no one can actually see the total movement of his right elbow through the entire stroke, because you are just showing the cast from different perspectives, but you hide that elbow motion and how the hauling is relative to his elbow, arm and hand position.  So people that are viewing the little nuances are not seeing the whole picture of what is happening with his right elbow and arm stroke, throughout the entire casting stroke, because you keep that side hidden.

Great guy and great tips. My only complaint is how the angle the shot changed so frequently every time you were looking to see a part of the cast from a certain angle the angle would change.

Are you using a shooting head or regular floating line?

HI, is your back cast more oblique respect to the forward cast.  It seems to me that back and front casts are not on the same plane but probably I am wrong.   My compliments 😊