Hi Nils, It appears to me that they've lost control of the costs then. Perhaps they're moving it from an 'amateur', self funded pastime run by volunteers into a fully funded sport with professional judges and stewards etc. However, there comes a point where the plucky 'amateur' competitors are simpl...

In Cumbria it was £20 per event for the casting only, so £120 (for 6 events) plus a £20 registration fee. In Norway last time it was 200 Euro. For Sweden it will be 550 Euro. That's one hell of an inflation rate. Anyone for a cheap, breakaway championships now?

550 Euros each to enter, plus another 550 each if we want to stay in the hotel. So Tracy and myself are looking at 2200 Euros before we factor in any traveling. So an estimated 3000 plus Euros for the whole thing for us - bearing in mind that we're quite close compared to some. When a casting comp (...

I'm a bit of a philistine when it comes to things like this - I have a definite limit when it comes to what I will pay for a drink. Would I taste the difference between this £1000 bottle versus a £40 single malt? Maybe they would taste a bit different, but would I pay an extra £960 for that differen...

Hi Walter,

I think it's been mentioned many times, however those that want to see lift, see lift. I see pixies.

James.

Hi Lasse, High 1-teens possibly in flat calm in UK should be comfortable/expected. When the stars align 120’. I haven’t measured indoors enough to know. So if that’s the baseline I’m about ten feet less in the tropics. Extremely difficult to throw 110’ in these conditions. Very interesting Walter. ...

Stoatstail50 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:09 am Less lift in the loop.

Pixies don't like sticky, hot conditions so they find somewhere else with a cooling breeze.

Hi Walter, I can confirm that I've experienced this many times also, the most recent being last weekend. I practice my carry with a shooting head set up (an old #5 MED cut to length), on the running line I put a 'flag' of tape to mark my exact carry. This 'flag' on my current practice line is set at...

I used to park my truck on the side of a cliff overlooking the Waiau River in Fiordland, New Zealand. And in the evening I would stand on the roof and play with my maximum carry. There was music involved and red wine. The point is I used to throw the forward cast downwards. Now it may have been my ...

For those small number that do, it's only relevant if lift in the loop is something you are particularly interested in achieving and, on the evidence so far, you're not likely to know whether there was any at all because the effect, if it exists at all, is ludicrously small. Mark, That being the ca...