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How important do people feel fly line design is? Do you choose a line with a forward distribution of weight in the head and a steep front taper to aid leader turnover? Does this add enough to let you fish a lighter rod than you might choose otherwise for a windy day (say a 7wt instead of a 9wt whil...

I'm calling 'foot fault' in that casting comp (everyone watching the loop as Rick surreptitiously takes a backward step).

Just burn it as it is - no extra refining. Burnt at high enough temperatures, i.e. within incinerators, the toxic by-products are minimal and the heat produced can be converted to electricity as in any other thermal plant. It should be illegal (globally) to send any plastic to landfill. Unfortunatel...

As a slight aside, I much prefer John's description of 'flutter' rather than 'hover'. You need to have very well trained casting pixies to negate gravity and make something truly hover :D On a more serious note, I see hover referred to a lot and I could understand a beginner or intermediate getting ...

Hi Barry, Firstly well done - I consider the clanking of the backing knot up through the rings as a little round of applause, but I'm probably a bit weird in that respect :D :D :D There is a big difference in the head length of what you've been using and the MED, don't expect the MED to go further i...

I'd put it on a French leader, it will go further that way :-)

Hi Gary,

A fish in a static position in running water and a fish in a static position in still water are not equivalent. There is no frame of reference that can be considered that equates the two.

Regards, James

Hi Gary, Essentially your question is a 'frame of reference' one. In the first example the angler determines the frame of reference, whilst in the second example the water determines the frame of reference. If you standardise the frame of reference, to either, then you see that the problem (in a pur...

Who was shooting at you? :-)

nicholasfmoore wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:00 pm

if you pull some line off a reel now, does it show severe memory?

I don't store my saltwater lines on the reel unless I'm in the tropics, so I can't tell you.

Cheers, James