Paul, I purchased the ones I have tied some flies with. I think the package actually said "fly lips" or something similar. They are tough to adjust, and twist when you cast or strip 'em too fast even after getting the fly to swim right. But... they can be fished downstream by feeding and h...

Vincente, How large of a streamer, and how deep do you want it to swim? In a current? How long are you willing to wait for it to sink? Generally, I find that using all synthetic materials, tying sparse so they don't trap air, and wrapping lead wire behind the hook eye will get a 5" saltwater st...

If we can choose body position and alignment that is beneficial then I think we should teach it. Often I don’t have this opportunity with a 1-2 second shot. Vince doesn’t always have this either with his challenge of backcasting into a gap… but these are exceptional circumstances. Normally we can c...

Re post 308... "I’ve also been working on some drills to simulate fast water presentations on grass. After landing the fly, they have to do a full arm strip slowly without the fly moving to demonstrate that they have put the slack in, the presentation has the line as high off the ground as they...

I cannot tell a difference when casting, but for setting the hook into a hard mouth fish the difference is significant. So much so that I suspect that a low stretch core would be a poor choice when using light tippets, like for trout. I say this because if that hard mouth fish is prone to jump immed...

Stretch and release? Let me take a guess... which has a better than 50% chance of being wrong. :( But I believe it is a common instruction for kids who want to be US football quarterbacks? If you Google for football passing technique coaching, you will find a number of slow-mo videos of famous NFL q...

Oh shit...

LK is Lefty!

I thought LK was Lasse, so I went all over trying to find his saltwater book!

I'm ashamed as I knew LK#1, and disappointed there is not a LK#2 book.

Where do you go from here with this dream student? Cheers, Paul I'd go with them to Key West! The permit fishing there is excellent. In fact, as far as I know, it is where permit on fly originated. I would also suspect that more permit on fly have been caught there than everywhere else in the world...

Paul, In another forum you mentioned the idea of wrist flailing as a possible cure for a student "struggling" for distance. I consider myself as such a student, and have been all my life. At every stage I have always strived to cast further, and I still do so today. Somewhere along the lin...

Sorry!

SQEP?