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by Mangrove Cuckoo
Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:14 am
Forum: Saltwater
Topic: Saltwater Retrieves
Replies: 8
Views: 332

Re: Saltwater Retrieves

Lou, The "retrieve" of a crab fly has more to do with the fish than the fly. So... what fish are you trying to catch? If the answer is permit, I can tell you what I do. I have no idea what others do... permit anglers are pretty uptight about telling their secrets! The most important part o...
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:44 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

I almost always start the haul with my hands close to each other, for both the bc and the fc.

However, I have played with getting my hauling hand close to the stripper guide when making a bc with what I think is something like the 170 distance cast bc.
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:01 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

Paul, I see two advantages to hauling while controlling the line over the index finger. One is mechanical advantage. If I extend my index finger and then snap my wrist from full extension to full flexion I have moved my fingertip (and the line) farther than I can achieve with the line over my thumb....
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 405
Views: 8488

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Well, maybe make that six? I've been watching but not sayin' much because its all still kinda over my head. I will admit that these posts have cemented the fact that I think I've retired from teaching. Apparently I had no idea what I was doing for the last 20 years or so. Luckily, the vast majority ...
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:28 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

Lasse, Thanks for that video! It appears that you are basing your release "timing" on rod shape. In one case ar RSP and the other "earlier" as in before RSP. In both cases it looks like you release the line when your line hand is low and the arm is straight. That would seem to me...
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

So... ?

If your aim is to "release early", as you might when casting a shooting head...

Do you release before full arm extension, or do you try to get to full extension sooner?

I'm not sure I can do the second. :(
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

Gordy, As an example, if my hauling hand is located 2 feet from the stripper guide and next to my rod hand and I make a straight line 2 foot haul directly in line with the rod I will pull 2 feet of line through the guides. If my haul is at right angles to the rod I will pull roughly .8 feet of line...
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: New to the Board, Introductions
Topic: Hello from Colorado
Replies: 8
Views: 334

Re: Hello from Colorado

Hello Archie!

Welcome!

In what part of Co are ya?

I have a good friend who moved out there who is an avid flyfisher. You don't happen to know a Florida transplant named Seth, do ya?

Gary in FL.
(Also a boomer and long time FFi instructor)
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:00 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides
Replies: 115
Views: 3619

Re: Hauling - pulling fly line through the guides

Other issues are not hauling to a fully straightened hauling arm finishing position on distance. Not hauling past the body on the forward haul. And bouncing the haul instead of a slight pause at the end of the haul. Cheers, Paul Paul, That last sentence is very curious to me. And it touches on why ...
by Mangrove Cuckoo
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: SLP
Replies: 140
Views: 3754

Re: SLP

I blame the whole "faster is better" thing on the marketing on the graphite's modulus back in the early days. It was the main selling point for quite a while... "Our blanks are made of the XX million modulus graphite fibers!" Nobody really understood what it meant, but bigger num...

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