I reject the premise.
I don’t think fly lines can fly. You’ve provided the evidence of their inability to fly in the question.
But I’m more than willing to be entertained by the answers of others.
Cheers, Graeme
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: Fly casting paradox (number 1)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 114
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:20 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
Re: glass vs graphite
Does an 8 wt carbon fiber rod bend less than a modern fiberglass rod cast the same distance with the same line, fly and loop? So, I'll try to answer this one from my own experience and from watching my students casting my glass rods (or their own.) My short answer is "it depends" ... :) S...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
Re: glass vs graphite
Can you share with me the FG blanks you like? The CTS I just bought was a custom build. Thank you Phil My favourites are the custom blanks I had made at CTS. I've made a few 8' single piece rods that were designed to be 10wt rods ("a few" because I made three for myself and several others...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
Re: glass vs graphite
Hi Phil, I think a glass rod with an 8 label will often bend more than a CF rod with an 8 label, but some of that is the expectation of the buyers being met by the makers. For some reason, many of the commercial rod makers like to make very bendy ‘glass rods because we want the “traditional ‘glass f...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: glass vs graphite
- Replies: 50
- Views: 852
Re: glass vs graphite
I love my (many) glass rods but I’m not going to give up the carbon fibre ones. Horses for courses. PS - as a geologist, I strongly object to the implication that graphite has any place in a fly rod. It’s a truly amazing mineral, but it’s not noted for its tensile strength. Carbon fibre, on the othe...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:01 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: 170
- Replies: 13
- Views: 376
Re: 170
Hi Vinny,
I think the problem is related to this statement:
Cheers,
Graeme
I think the problem is related to this statement:
Cant your rod to the side a little so you're not standing in the path the line must take.It happens more often when I’m tracking directly overhead.
Cheers,
Graeme
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: New to the Board, Introductions
- Topic: Hello from Serbia :)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 89
Re: Hello from Serbia :)
Welcome to the forum Nikola.
Cheers,
Graeme
Cheers,
Graeme
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Teaching
- Topic: Tracking and Loop planes
- Replies: 176
- Views: 5463
Re: Tracking and Loop planes
I can't remember anyone to have disagreed with that not being a problem. The double negative in this statement is confusing, but I am saying it's not a problem to do it if it's intentional and the reasons for doing it are appropriate. Again, what is the intent of the action? If the end result is de...