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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: Teaching
- Topic: Structuring multiple lessons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 59
Re: Structuring multiple lessons
There is a huge risk in teaching where when trying to make minor (or subtle) changes to an ingrained stroke, it results in the caster overanalysing his or her movements, they then become robotic, everything looks forced and what we thought was a minor change becomes a road block of immense proportio...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Teaching
- Topic: Structuring multiple lessons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 59
Re: Structuring multiple lessons
Thanks Vince, I was half way starting a new topic this last weekend and then moved it to a FP. The Snake Roll is a great example. It’s highly useful in river of course, not just for downstream lure bashing but also for upstream dry fly and going in for shots in NZ. But it’s also useful in Stillwater...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Power pro braid fails
- Replies: 16
- Views: 234
Re: Power pro braid fails
The fact that some of the claims of fluorocarbon are obviously misleading at best makes me question abrasion resistance. https://youtu.be/KiQTvmM-1cY I think it’s marketing. What do anglers think they would like from leader and tippet material? Invisibility, sinks well, high knot strength, better ab...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: FP Discussions
- Topic: Spooling
- Replies: 1
- Views: 81
Re: Spooling
I’ve always applied the tension to the line with the fingers just prior to the spool. Pencil or screwdriver between the knees. The truck aeriel makes a good alternative if it’s still there. Are there books on French Nymphing? I’d like to see a book about how to hold fish without looking like you hav...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:50 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: I’ve lost my socks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 90
Re: I’ve lost my socks
I’ll keep digging. I expected to find them on the server.
Cheers!
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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: Line configuration affect on rod
- Replies: 32
- Views: 642
Re: Line configuration affect on rod
Hi George, That’s a great sequence!! As we can see the rod tip travel during the casting stroke is approximately the same as the length of line outside the rod tip. With Lasse he has considerably longer line and in his case we can observe the effect of a small dangle with the line dipping below the ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Power pro braid fails
- Replies: 16
- Views: 234
Re: Power pro braid fails
Hi Lou, I never use Fluorocarbon. I don’t even think we should be making the stuff. It supposedly takes thousands of years to degrade. I’ve found it has less knot strength than mono and despite the marketing I can see it in water. It sinks quicker than monofilament, which may sometimes be an advanta...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: Line configuration affect on rod
- Replies: 32
- Views: 642
Re: Line configuration affect on rod
I suspect 99% of the guys casting a fly rod have no concept of the need to get the line ‘positioned right’, nor even what ‘right’ entails. It is just not emphasized (at least from what I’ve seen/read) as an essential concept. It seems, rather, that instruction is aimed at making it happen indirectl...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: Line configuration affect on rod
- Replies: 32
- Views: 642
Re: Line configuration affect on rod
Hi George, Yep it’s unfortunate that we are working using our “photogenic” memories. What I remember was a shortish line (certainly not a long carry like Lasse’s above). Most of the line was redirected during the casting stroke by the rod tip. I seem to remember saying at the time, that if the line ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: Tackle
- Topic: line lubricants vs
- Replies: 27
- Views: 928
Re: line lubricants vs
Just over $400. 2350% markup. New socks here I come.