Paul Arden wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:09 am I actually think most of it is bollocks. If it’s small and brown and looks crippled the fish will eat it.

Paul,

Be sure to stock up on lots of food before you sail off into the salt!


Gary

I have an acquaintance who is a tyer of some notoriety. Their creations have graced the cover of more than one magazine, and they have tremendous artistic talent in other areas. They are also an avid fly angler, but I think it was tying that first attracted them to the dark side. What I often argue ...

Lars, Yes! Please do a FP on how you make the welded loops! I have the clear shrink tubing and the heat gun, and have recently attempted to make some loops - without success. Although I think you might have already identified my problem... the loops I've tried were on lines that did not have braid i...

Phil, I'm a bit confused. Can you clarify if: The rod plane is approximately vertical, as in usual casts? When you say elevate the trajectory, you mean the forward trajectory? Or, do you mean to raise the trajectory of the back cast? And... if you raise either one - don't you lower the other to keep...

Paul, I don't think that is it. I recognized this while I experimented with different ways of hauling (approximently) directly down the blank. If I kept my hands where the separation was constant, but my line hand was in front, the haul was far inferior. All things about the same, but my rod hand in...

Folks, Can anyone explain why it seems to work better, on the delivery stroke, if the haul doesn't begin until the rod hand is in front of the hauling hand? It shows up occasionally on some of the videos of distance casting, and it has been mentioned a few times. So I have been playing with it. And ...

Does an 8 wt carbon fiber rod bend less than a modern fiberglass rod cast the same distance with the same line, fly and loop? Phil Phil, You did not ask me but I'll pitch in my 0.02 anyway... To that question I would answer generally "yes", but I think it goes beyond materials. CF rods ca...

Graeme,

Thanks! I love to irritate some of my friends... like yelling "trout set" when they miss all their fish. Now I'm going to correct them with "carbon fiber" every time they say "graphite".

I expect years of entertainment from that one.

HI John, Could you supply a video of a cast where the elbow goes behind that line across the shoulders? Wouldn't that really hurt? I watched the videos above, and they are all non "US" casters except Steve, and I don't see that in any. To me, while their elbow may open behind the body it s...

For me, one of a few of the basic distinctions between OSD and 170 is bracing the rod butt against the forearm. I don't do it on OSD but do on 170. But, Lasse, above in the video, it looks like you brace on OSD also??? (I'll try that!. Bracing is a very key ingredient, for me, when fishing with rods...