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Casting with Lefty Kreh Kindle Edition

by Lefty Kreh (Author), Jay Nichols (Photographer) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

Like taking a private lesson with the best teacher in the world of fishing, this fly-casting guide offers step-by-step instructions to over forty casts.

Casting should be nearly effortless. If you understand fly-casting mechanics and how to adapt them to various fishing conditions, your casting will greatly improve. That has been Lefty’s philosophy since he began teaching fly casting over fifty years ago. Lefty shows how to get rid of a tailing loop, throw a slack-line cast, and roll cast better, as well as casts for tight quarters, in wind, casting with weighted flies and lines, and distance casts. A section on the physical movements explains how to prevent injuries to the rotator cuff and elbow. Whether you fish salt water or streams, heavy rods or light, you'll learn everything from small changes in movements that greatly improve your casting to totally new takes on traditional casts from this book. Lefty is the master, and this book captures his lifetime of wisdom on the subject of casting.

“Lefty Kreh is well known for his quick smile and sharp wit, his encyclopedic knowledge of knots and tackle, his decades of fly-fishing exploration around the globe, and his remarkable prowess with a fly rod, but his greatest gift to fly fishers is his role as a teacher and mentor.” —John Randolph
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    June 14, 2023
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1,110 color photos, 17 illustrations.

About the Author

Lefty Kreh has been an outdoor writer for more than 45 years and was named "Angler of the Year" by Fly Rod and Reel magazine in 1997. He currently can be seen fishing with Tom Brokaw, Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia), and Michael Keaton on the Outdoor Channel's Buccaneers & Bones. He lives in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Jay Nichols is the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine and lives in Pennsylvania.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01I5VT4NE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stackpole Books; Illustrated edition (June 14, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 313.5 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 794 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

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Customers find the book very helpful and easy to understand, with detailed casting instruction from a master. Moreover, the pictures are considered the best part of the book. They also appreciate its value for money.

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Customers find the information in the book helpful and easy to understand, with one customer noting it provides detailed casting instruction from a master.

"...Kreh paints a perfect picture on every page, explaining the dynamics needed to improve your casting, and also teaching new casting techniques for..." Read more

"...but the more I read the book the more I realized how easy it was to understand each phase of each particular casting technique with the pictures." Read more

"Good book it will help you cast better. You will learn a lot even if you have cast for 30 years like i have" Read more

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Customers appreciate the pictures in the book, with one noting that they make it very easy to understand.

"...Lefty Kreh paints a perfect picture on every page, explaining the dynamics needed to improve your casting, and also teaching new casting techniques..." Read more

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"Who hasn't heard of Lefty Kreh? This book will be a classic. Beautifully photographed, I can't imagine a flyfisher that wouldn't learn something..." Read more

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Customers find the book to be good value for money, with one mentioning it provides an excellent experience from Lefty.

"Fantastic read and excellent experience from Lefty. One of the world’s best!" Read more

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  • R. E. Revis
    5.0 out of 5 stars The "Master" in print
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2010
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    I already had my own copy of Lefty's book, but recently was fly fishing in Alaska with a young man just beginning the sport. Tom picked me up at the Lodge at 5:00am to fish a river in Talkeetna. When I returned home, I ordered this book and sent it to Tom as a "thank you" for taking time to make my Alaska vacation even better.

    Whether you consider yourself a seasoned pro, or are just taking up the sport of fly fishing, this book is a must have for anyone pursuing the sport. Lefty Kreh paints a perfect picture on every page, explaining the dynamics needed to improve your casting, and also teaching new casting techniques for use in special conditions. I once heard a phrase about Lefty Kreh, and it goes something like this. "If fly fishing were a religion, Lefty Kreh would be the Pope." Lefty Kreh is a Gentleman's gentleman, and a great teacher. Buy this book, and enjoy the sport of fly fishing ten fold.
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  • Serena Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed and easy to follow
    Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
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    Fantastic read and excellent experience from Lefty. One of the world’s best!
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  • J. Gold
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Pictures make it very easy to understand
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2015
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    The pictures are the best part of the book. I thought at first it might be excessive, but the more I read the book the more I realized how easy it was to understand each phase of each particular casting technique with the pictures.
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  • Dana Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016
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    Excellent
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  • Redneck22
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015
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    Good book it will help you cast better. You will learn a lot even if you have cast for 30 years like i have
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  • Robert McAfee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018
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    A lifetime of information in this book. Very helpful
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  • George C. Freas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic In Making
    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2010
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    Who hasn't heard of Lefty Kreh? This book will be a classic. Beautifully photographed, I can't imagine a flyfisher that wouldn't learn something that will improve his or her casting technique in this volume, regardless if you're a novice or an old hand. This is a keeper.
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  • Robert Lillard
    3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good pictures. Written by a master
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015
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    Lots of good pictures. Written by a master. However, his "new" style of teaching is to teach principles and let the student find his own method of casting. Might be better for more advanced caster but as a beginner I found it harder to understand what I should be doing at different points during the cast.
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  • Old Running Dude
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to improve your casting then buy this book. It's a revelation.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2016
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    This is a substantial book in every sense of the word. As somebody else has pointed out, it weighs almost 4 lbs and is hardback, the paper is very high quality and it's jammed full of photographs. Every single aspect of the cast is covered by numerous photographs, usually from several angles and both close-up and wide angle. There's probably over a thousand photos and they're all extremely high quality.

    This is the ultimate 'coffee-table' book of fly casting.

    I'd been having some problems with my casting after coming back to fly fishing after a brief pause (of 10 years). I was getting trailing loops and having to untangle wind knots every couple of casts. I was also having problems getting it to straighten out and it was continually landing in a heap.

    It was driving me to distraction and I was looking around for professional instruction, but couldn't find anybody local so starting looking on Youtube where I found the Left Krey videos.

    Lefty has broken down the casting process into numerous principles and techniques, which are very unorthodox, but seem to make a a lot of sense. One example is that he tells you to twist your body rather than just using your forearm, which I believe ties in with many other sports such as golf where you're using your core rather than just your arm. In the videos on Youtube he makes it look so effortless as he continually throws out a perfect long line. Think Ernie Els and you're on the right track.

    After seeing him on Youtube something clicked, and I figured that I had to buy his book, which arrived today.

    I flicked through it for about 30 minutes (and believe me you wouldn't even scratch the surface in that time), and then went fishing....

    Anyway, in 3 hours I didn't get a single trailing loop, most of my casts unrolled perfectly and on the few times when they didn't, I was able to think through what had gone wrong using Lefty's principles and they'd be perfect again until I slipped back into old habits.

    All that in 30 minutes ! This book, and Lefty's principles in general are tremendous.

    As a conclusion, I need to mention that I'd originally learnt to fly fish when I was about 12 (which is a long time ago !). I was taught by my uncle who was a life long fisherman, but never had any professional casting lessons until 10 years ago when I had 2 hours instruction by a very well known fly fishing author. Those 2 hours cost about 10 times what I paid for this book (second hand) and weren't nearly as effective.

    If you've read this far, then you're obviously pretty interested in improving your casting, so just buy it.
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  • Robert Bruce Morrison
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2015
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    Seminal book by a famous casting instructor
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