Fly Fishing Lesson - Underhand / Scandi Casting with Klaus Frimor 

I do love the way he cuts out the bull and just tells it how it is. Was a pleasure meeting him.

I had a 31 gram scandi laying around, I have a loop rod that likes around 27 gram, when he said cut the line I immediately went to look for scissors and a weight scale, it shoots great now

Master Craftsman ... He's added an untold amount to the world of fly fishing :)

Great video, some really useful stuff here that's got me thinking of how best to improve my casting and fishing. As i have very little time on the water it can be all too easy to doubt my technique or tackle, articles such as this can really help steer people in the right direction, for me the length of line at lift may well be the cause of my current issues. The whole theory and practice of having the full length of the line (including tip?)off the water at lift and therfore modifying the line to suit is worthy of a video in and of itself. I personally would love to see loop further the Akademi series with a range of in-depth videos on such techniques, as whilst such information is available online, it tends to be fragmented and scattered across a range of sources. If it were to be collected and presented well it could become an invaluable resource. Many thanks from the Uk 🇬🇧

Oh nice see you casting again 👌 I agree fully whit shorter lines is a benefit of lift ! And if right taper a short line shoot as crazy! A line who do that is A-Jensen big fly2 those are perfect at coastal fishing. For underhand casting you need the weight at the back of your head. Because the line fly backwards and as the shootingline stretch out it turns over. Good demo Klaus 👍 Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪

A fantastic caster and a real nice guy

I love how Klaus teaches . Great fly caster

Always enjoy Klaus’s casting. However, after many years of fishing Scandi heads I moved to a 54’ Gaelforce Spey line and really enjoy casting it now.

Love this but how does the rod behave when he’s trying to put a long line out? IE we lift the rod / second lift

I’m curious if you can make a video on how to cut and modify a shooting head specifically for this technique.

To shorten a head without cutting a few feet can’t one pull more of the head into the rod? Obviously not too much or the necessary weight of the head will be insufficient to load the rod and shooting will be less efficient with thicker line going through the rod guides. But the alternative is cutting either the distal tapered section which effects delicacy of the landing or the proximal part of the head and now a loop to loop connection is necessary or learning to “splice” the cut ends for a smooth connection.

Very rare to see someone doing the smaller loops, and with different number of fingers I suppose, thing. I learned it many years ago, to try to reduce the hooking into the grass (I only fish from the bank) but it still was extremely irritating.

What rod are you using on this demo?

What is the shooting line?

What outfit is Klaus using?

Hey Klaus, we all appreciate the sarcasm, but can you address the fact that some of us on the West Coast like to fish 6" entire chicken flies in the winter and we might have to adjust our casting methods due to that and other factors? Just a thought. Cheers

I'm pretty new to this and don't understand why so many different techniques and not just always you use the single or double spey. Seems those two with cover pretty much every scenario, also I'm from Louisiana.

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