March 14, 2025
By Fly Fisherman Staff
Author and fly-casting coach Ed Jaworowski has been teaching and instructing for 45-plus years, and before he took up fly casting he was a competitive surf caster. He wrote two seminal books on fly casting: The Cast (2005) and Perfecting the Cast (2021). He is also the author of Troubleshooting the Cast (1999) and co-author with Bob Popovics of the fly-tying masterpiece Pop Fleyes (2014). On today's episode we talk to Ed about his five-part 2025 casting series in Fly Fisherman magazine titled "Functional Fly Casting." We also discuss his career as a classics professor at Villanova University, how he approaches his research and his teaching philosophy, and we talk about his long friendship and many collaborations with Lefty Kreh.
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00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:45.000: There are a lot of interesting videos on YouTube, including some amazing casting videos that we're going to talk about today. A good segue to introduce our guest today, Ed Jaworowski, who has been a casting instructor, speaker, presenter for 45 years, has written two of the most important books on casting in the past couple of decades. He's good friends with Lefty Kreh. I always consider you to sort of butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid of casting. And he's here with us today to talk about a broad variety of subjects. Welcome, Ed.
00:01:44.000 --> 00:02:33.000: Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to this. I'm very excited about it. I'm glad to be part of this entire program that you're putting together, these podcasts. It's great to have you here. We're the idea behind these podcasts. I mean, you've written articles for Fly Fisherman for years and years and years, decades probably is more accurate. The idea of the podcast is sort of like learn more about you and get some sort of deeper insights into the topics that you write about as a teacher or an instructor. You're probably aware that sometimes you tell people you give them instruction in one method and they don't get it. So sometimes a different method, in this case, audio or video, maybe that sinks in with them. So that's the goal.
00:02:33.000 --> 00:03:12.000: Yeah, I try to involve or incorporate as many different ways as possible to explain things. And I emphasize from the start when I tell people, I can't teach you to cast. I've never taught anybody to cast. I can teach you about fly casting, the mechanics. Your piano teacher can't teach you to play the piano. He can show you how to do it. But he doesn't sit there and say, here's a attitude by Chopin. Here, here's how you do it. Now you do it. Now come back in 10 years and see if you've got it. But you teach yourself. We teach ourselves these kind of things. We get some general idea. We know what we're supposed to do, but it takes time…
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