Dear all,
After months of delay… finally the event have come to a firmed date.
The UFO - EAK Casting Fair will be held on Saturday 29th October 2011
Those who are interested, pls contact me at 019-3859965 or Ben Foo at 012-3336822
Detail of the event will be posted soon.
Dron
UFOMalaysia
count me in. how do i pay?
[img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aS8goxQLkwM/TmAxLc-tewI/AAAAAAAABMA/m_R4MVbDB6g/ito.jpg[/img]Thank you accessdenied, appreciate if you could pay to Nick at Tacklebox…
The participants are:
Itinerary
7.30 am – 8.30 am : Registration of participants and breakfast
8.30 am – 9.30 am : Introduction to the 5 Essentials of Flycasting
9.30 am – 12.30 pm : Paricipants broken into groups and assigned to respective stations for 20 minutes before moving to the next and so forth.
Station 1 – Accuracy Casting. Participants will be taught the key points on how to be an accurate caster. Learn how to place your fly close to your targets and increase your catch rate.
Station 2 – Roll cast. One of the most important casts in flyfishing. If you already know it, it’s time to sharpen up your rollcast skills. You will learn the various uses of the cast and when to apply.
Station 3 – Reach mend and pile cast. These are casts that you will make time and time again fishing in moving streams or freestone rivers. Learn how to avoid ‘drag’ of your fly, how to apply the cast and how to execute.
Station 4 – Forming narrow and wide loops. Learn the simple techniques of rod tip control for effective loops. Learn the key points for more consistent loop shapes to fit your fishing situation. Bad tailing loops or wind knots? We’ll show the many simple ways to fix this.
Station 5 – Casting in windy conditions. Participants will be taught how to cast into a head wind and with wind blowing onto the casting arm. Put an end to free body piercing and broken rods. Learn many simple ways to handle fishing in the wind.
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch Break and Chit Chat
1.30 pm – 3.00pm All participants are invited to show your newly learnt skills in the UFO Mini Competition – Accuracy/Roll cast accuracy/3 pick-up and shoot Distance. Prizes for winner of each individual category and overall Grand Prize for Participant with the most points and “Caster of the Day Award”
(All prizes sponsored by Psage Merdana, Tacklebox and UFO)
3.00 pm onwards – Free time/Fishing
Equipment : All participants are requested to bring their own flyrod (5-7wt), Bright Floating Line and Leader.
The Participants:
On Standby:
Hi,
Any chance that Hakka ppl get discount ar since only Hainanese ppl organising? Reason? Hainanese ppl can only fish land base!!! Hahahaha
correct kar dron and ben?
scaryone
There are 10 prizes to be given out… Special prize for the top 3 top score participants…And the organizer and CCI will be contributing 5 of their personal favorite flies…
Looks like all participants will go home with something…
Today, the UFOM - EAK Casting Fair was smoothly carry out with 12 participants attended the event… Many thank to the support from all especially P’sage Merdana and Tacklebox for sponsoring the grand price and also many thanks to Hans Van Klinken who also send us some fly lines as gifts to the participants…
The Participants are:
1)Amir
2)Roslan
3)Azhar
4)Hasan
5)Fairol
6)Topek
7)Wujiman
8)Jon Wei
9)Simon Chan
10)Kevin Foo
11)Myke
12)Ibrahim
Many thanks to the CCI - Ben Foo, Ti, Tony, Nik Ooi, David Samuel, Nik Rahimi and our future CCI ( CCI Candidates ) Riki and Rahiman for showing and sharing their casting knowledge with everyone…
Also thank you to Joe from Rod n Line for covering the event.
Some photos of the event…
