CASTING 147 



heavy tackle accuracy and distance fly casting; dry fly 

 accuracy and casting the salmon fly for distance. 



In the light tackle events the rod is limited to 11% 

 feet in length and 5% ounces in weight, except in the 

 dry fly accuracy, the limit in length being eleven feet. 

 In the accuracy fly targets are 3 rings, 30 inches in 

 diameter, set at forty-five, fifty and fifty-five feet re- 

 spectively from the casting platform. 



Five casts are made at each ring, successively. If 

 the fly falls inside of or on the rim of the ring it is a 

 perfect cast. " For each foot or fraction of a foot, 

 the fly falls outside of ring a demerit of one shall be 

 made. The total of such demerits divided by 15 and 

 subtracted from 100 shall be the percentage score." 

 Perfect scores have been made but the official record 

 of the National Association of Scientific Angling Clubs 

 is 99 1 %5, held by George Chatt of the Anglers' 

 Illinois Casting Clubs, Chicago. 



In the distance fly events the contestant is allowed 

 ten minutes to make his cast. The official N.A.S.A.C. 

 record for the light tackle distance fly was made in 

 1915 by H. C. Golcher of San Francisco, the cast being 

 116 feet. The heavy tackle record of 134 feet is held 

 by W. D. Mansfield of San Francisco. 



