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...

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...

VGB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:11 am. I just checked on Tik Tok and it said don’t tell a geologist that rocks are dumb

Is that the Mensa Tik Tok?

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...

Hi Vinny,

I think the problem is related to this statement:

It happens more often when I’m tracking directly overhead.

Cant your rod to the side a little so you're not standing in the path the line must take.

Cheers,
Graeme

Welcome to the forum Nikola.

Cheers,
Graeme

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...

What I do remember instead is, that Lasse as well as others said, that once main launch direction for the fly-leg is set, tip position to get pulled sideways has nearly no impact. That means the force applied via rod-leg can't have any impact worth to talk about. If that's correct, a video prove sh...

VGB wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:30 pm Looks like most casts I’ve seen photographed, the perspective skews any analysis. The camera should be looking down the loop plane not Birds Eye view shown here from directly above.

And even this is not from directly above. It's from above and behind the caster (we can see the caster's back.)

I wish I had a drone to satisfy your request. I can shoot front on or from behind, both of which might satisfy your need to show a vertical loop. Anyway, looking at your pic from above. If this were my student and they were seeking perfection in their cast, I'd be working on the minor tracking error...