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Mark Surtees

Mark Surtees

London-based Fly Fishers International Master Casting Instructor and Managing Director of Outback Rigging Ltd; guest on The Fly Culture Podcast.

Sep 23, 2026

22:03
That's where the learning really sinks in so picking that kind of challenge point of 80 i think is um a really good thing to do and then when you get to a stage where suddenly that skill you can do it 10 out of 10 make it a bit harder you know put the targets a bit further away put them under a tree you know try it with your left hand or off shoulder or you know just up the difficulty a bit because that's where the learning takes place um does that explain that okay mark is that
22:36
Yeah, the researchers are Bjork and Bjork, if anybody's interested.
22:45
And it's related in – well, let me just change this.
22:50
If you come to a lesson, certainly if you come to one of my lessons, there are a set of practice routines that a caster can take away and practice themselves.
23:00
So a lesson is really only just guided practice.
23:05
And when we're actually doing a lesson with an individual in front of us, as instructors, we have to make an assessment about what their skills and prior experience is in order to determine what difficulty we're going to put into their practice routines.
23:23
And so it's a matter of judgment and observation from instructors to how you actually put these routines together and how difficult you want to make them.

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