Instructor no. 21 (casually my age )

Excellent tool for training, teaching and filming.

The lumiline by the way, is probably the best practise line you will ever own. It is unbelievably good for teaching too. Loops, anchors, slack line casts. I've had my best results with it. Anyone interested in casting should own one. You do need a decent UV lamp (best), a spotlight and some tin foi...

Paul Arden wrote:The Pro has fished all over the place and did well in Bosnia (50.1cm grayling)

Accuracy to the millimeter!
What do you use to measure your fish, a caliper?

Mike Heritage wrote:Slo mo is good but it sometimes gives you the wrong impression about timing...

Mike,

One of the ego-destroying characteristics of slo-mo is that it gives you precisely the right impression about your timing

I think if he'd have known the amount of confusion it was going to cause, he might have chosen different terminology. Definitely. I think that there are cases in which what he defined as "poetry" doesn't convey the idea properly. Just saying "don't rotate the rod till the end" i...

So the gif of Mel you provided shows him pulling through the first part of the stroke and then pushing somewhat. This how Mel himself described that cast: " In the pull through casting stroke, the casting hand precedes the rod tip through most of the casting stroke and the turnover and stop ta...

As I understand it this is what over here has been known as "pushing style"

Bruce wrote:It recently occurred to me that this is about late vs early rotation.

You are right. That is the actual meaning of the concept coined by Mel Krieger. Don't expect anyone else agreeing with it though:

http://www.sexyloops.co.uk/cgi-bin/theb ... =3;t=14660

Excellent post Paul.

Loop propagation means that the distance between the loop front and a given point in the line forming the rod leg increases with time; or that the distance between the loop front and the tip of the line decreases with time. or that the fly leg is constantly turning into rod leg. All are one and the ...