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- 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...
- 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.
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.
- 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....
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
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.
- 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...
- 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)
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)
- 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 ...
- 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...