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Bart, You may find this thread quite useful. It's long, but Carl's thoughts are in line with yours (and mine). Cheers, Graeme Paul, in Carl's thread post #1 there appears to be an image missing; above the paragraph starting: "In the loop above you can see various casting faults." I know sometimes f...

Interesting video Bob, thank you. Most of those mandrels look to be finished rod length. I didn't pick up from Steve Rajeff's commentary whether multi piece rods, eg. 9' #5 4 piece, are rolled on four mandrels; or if the mandrel produces a 9' rod which is chopped into four pieces, then jointing piec...

Paul, I am much less intrepid, and a few years older, than you. I carry a spare bootlace, cable ties in a couple of sizes, antihistamine tablets, antihistamine cream, paracetamol, ibuprofen ... as you can see, I expect I am the thing most likely to break

Andrew

I have a couple of older Loop Danielsson Evotec reels: LW 4seven and LW 6nine. They are excellent, robust reels: although heavy when compared with similar era Waterworks ULA F2 and F3. I agree with you Dan that with the Vossler AIR-One, or the Vossler Tryst, you will definitely catch more fish :) An...

Having read a translated article about TLT (http://www.flyrepository.com/boondocks/pages/TLT.pdf) I suspect the prescribed rod specification was written when bamboo or fibreglass rods were the standard. Why else would a 7’6” rod be more like a rapier/dagger than a 9’0” rod? In so many fields, we hum...

Have just been looking at the webpage for Sunray Stuart Crofts Dry Fly line https://sunrayflyfish.com/collections/micro-thin-upsell/products/stuart-crofts-entomology-dry-fly-line-micro-thin-furled?variant=31319769996 Q. The weights look light for their AFTM's. What weight should I buy for my rod? A....

Hey thanks for all of those replies. The short rod I have is a Scott F(ibreglass) 6’6”#3; the next is a quite poky Greys 8’6”#5. I do have a #3 DT line: I should see what I can do with that and those rods.

Andrew

Vince, from having fished with Malik and having used his rod(s), is TLT tackle dependant, and if so, what tackle? I simply can't remember but is it: shorter, stiffer rod, lightweight DT line, lots of linespeed? Are all of these components necessary, or have you to been able to extract the essence an...

I remember seeing a good sized Grayling drifting downstream, gently turning with the current, on the R Lathkill (Derbyshire, UK). My only explanation was it was napping.
I almost stood on a big Brown Trout in very shallow pocket water in NZ around midday: not sure which of us was most surprised