Peter, what length leader do you use to practice the floating line tasks on the THCI exam?

This morning I went bass fishing but my real goal was to practice the slip shoot PULD while fishing with a crease fly, 10 ft leader, 9 wt Infinity Salt fly line, and 10 wt Loomis NRX rod. Casting from an elevated position on the rising bank of a lake, I was amazed at the distance I could achieve (17...

Advice from all these experienced people has helped a great deal. I continue to practice using a 10 wt NRX rod, a 9 wt SA infinity salt fly line with a 50 foot head, and a 10.5 foot saltwater leader from Rio coupled with a popper (crease fly). The fly line is dressed and the leader is smeared with f...

Thank you, Paul. Today I greased my leader with Loon payette paste before the practice session and I took your advice about the position of my arm at the start of the slip lift. Rather than sinking the popper I was able to drag it along the surface before it left the water. There's a lot of multi-ta...

While practicing the slipped lift pick-up-and-lay-down cast that I learned on Paul Arden’s video I made several observations. Firstly, I observed that the popper fly’s behavior during the line-slip and during the line shoot are an important part of a successful cast. As you lift the rod to slip line...

No, but he was emphatic.

I found this video to be very useful and I have spent many hours practicing the near-horizontal overpowered curve cast as part of my preparation to take the Masters Casting Instructor test. The task reads: Demonstrate two different methods of presenting a curved line presentation to the left/right a...

Johnnybg wrote: Is this what introduces the wave in the line that becomes a dangling end in the fly leg making the fly skip on the surface? In Bernd's explanations of the dangling end he uses a dangling end on the back cast followed by a puddled leader on the delivery cast. In the above question, ar...

Thanks for a great answer to my question. I went out practicing today and it all made good sense.

In his book Single-Handed Spey Casting, Simon Gawesworth states on p. 79 in the chapter on the double spey: “The most perfect D-loop stroke has the right angle and speed to leave the fly on the water, but make it pirouette on the water and align even its tail feathers with the target. This is perfec...