Further: at a risk of looking really dumb, is the distance between the two angles and the setting of the lower angle , the counterflex?
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No suggestions here, just an observation. When I see them in photos or watch the grownups throw them at the BFCC events they are not just a tight pointy loop. Below them on the rod leg is another crease/ fold that is an open obtuse angle. Together they looks like the loop has been divided into two a...

In terms of my short casting , I’m looking at the rod leg and hoping it’s flat and the hoping the other legs stacked up over the top of it. ( tracking ok) I don’t mind round open loops as I get less crashes and they give me licence to adjust my path mid cast. if there’s obstacles like trees near the...

Nice. Another masterpiece… IMG_7863.jpeg :pirate: When your club is mostly upstream dry fly ,but its constantly high water and coloured, and the seasons started, and your going crazy watching the rain on the window. And your pride has desserted you! And you’ve never tied a streamer ( it got immedia...

Re sock obsession paul .....I mean this in the kindest possible way, have you mixed up your medication of late, or is it unusually hot over there and you've just slipped into slightly 'tropo' maybe? Have you found yourself dreaming of socks, or even been hearing your socks talking to you? :oh: ( don...

That’s certainly very weird Bendix. Fortunately I don’t see those posts. Maybe they all want to be extraordinary fly tying geniuses :D Even before 'on line' was the go to source for new knowledge . 4 or 5 Magazines like Fly fishing and Fly Tying, etc here in the UK, would have these hacks, desperat...

i thought id have a go at starting this years up with a shot of scotty in the River Tay... freezing!

That reminds me of something I read once. I seem to remember an article in an early trout and salmon magazine (early for me anyway) where Richard Walker who developed many of the early patterns for the early resevoir scene in the UK in the 60's. He could be a belicose old bugger in print and was ber...

does it make any difference if the tip eye is oval or round does anyone know?

this is pretty informative too. https://earthjustice.org/article/whats-killing-the-salmon-in-our-urban-streams-a-mystery-is-now-solved?sourceid=1046525&ms=email&utm_source=EA&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Cultiv&utm_campaign=240123_Cultiv_6PPD-Salmon-Update_Tox&utm_content=Featur...