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Instead, MCI training (just returned from the lawn),.... Even that is now on hold to some extent. :( My test in early November is "suspended", while most of the FFi testing events before that have been cancelled. Consistent with the marathon approach: just like the olympics, in my mind everything I...

Interesting times indeed. I wonder if an alien contact will still happen during my lifetime. For our family this will be a marathon, no doubt about it. Many weeks of isolation. Anyway, now more work than usual, teaching remotely (not casting), which is somewhat challenging, and naturally a blessing ...

Sometimes, when I have treated a line with a silicone-based solution, I have wiped the rod with the cloth afterwards, and then polished the rod with a dry cloth. I must say that the end result is very slick and shiny.

More traditionally I have used mild furniture polishing solutions.

It’s measured feet to fly? 9’rod, 9’ leader? That’s only 32’ of fly line. I certainly wouldn’t be opening up for that... must be the softer rod! Hi there. After experimenting for a while with different ways to apply power, I agree that opening up at 50-55' is not necessary, even with my setup. It i...

If the rod plane is tilted, and one is checking tracking casting along a tape, then yes, it should be under the tip not the caster! Quite a mistake many do is standing on the tape, and the rodtip moves two meters to the side, and they then have to make a tracking mistake to get the line close when ...

Right got it. Ignoring shoulder problems for a moment, that’s the single biggest tracking fault I see. Virtually every caster has it, even at comp level. When I first discovered I was doing it, I had thought I was casting straight. And the interesting thing is when I look backwards and pick a targe...

Now that we ventured out to discuss DTs: one of the reasons why I originally continued to use them in my river fishing is the ability to extend their lifetime by turning the line around. Two out of three DTs on my reels have been turned around at some point. Fly lines costing what they nowadays do, ...

... but I do think a DT is the most versatile line. When I started fly fishing, I was handed a 15' rod and a 10wt DT line. I am grateful to the person who did this, because long heads have stuck with me ever since. Out of the 6 setups I use more or less regularly, three reels host DTs permanently, ...

Graeme H wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:42 pm

He likes to make you think harder about the things you say by challenging them.

In this company, I feel fortunate to be the student.

So let me get this straight, you where puzzled about something and then applied it halfway, moved on too soon and ended up going back to where you normally have succes? Seems obvious where the fault was 🙂 Yes, lack of skills (on my behalf), right? I have great respect for the people and knowledge o...