About the Savolax Casting Club
The Savolax Casting Club has been foundet in 1999 and joins the ,Svenska Casting
Förbundet'.
The reason for that foundation has been, that vacationers needed some practice and instruction
in the technics of throwing in the fly-fishing-sports. If you always wanted to try this sports,
and put this thought aside because you assumed it to be too complicated, then don't hesitate -
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.
So if you are interested, here's the adress and phone-number of the chairman of the club:
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 *
2.
fly - distance, one-handed *
3.
weight precision
4.
weight-aim
5.
weight - distance, one-handed
6.
fly - distance, two-handed
7.
weight - distance, two handed
8.
multi - aim
9.
multi - distance, two-handed
*
The disciplines that are marked with * are offered by the Savolax Casting Club.

 

(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, one-handed * 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.
         
(9) multi - distance, two-handed 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 choice have to be used.

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