Trend to heavier fly lines

[VGB]

F'k that for a game of soldiers :-)

[Morsie]

Vince in NZed a few years ago I had looked at the weather forecast and could see a screaming northwester was going to hit at around midday so I loaded up with 6 with a 6 line. My mate headed out with his 5. At 12, The dust cloud coming down the big open valley looked like there was an army of orcs on the march and boom it hit us. We hadn't gone too far so I sent my mate back to the car where I had another 6 and some lines on reels. He caught up with me and started throwing bloody good casts (he's a CI anyway) in the wind. "I like this set-up" he said. I had a cast with it, it was a #6 One, easy enough to see, but the line was an 8 Outbound short. It smacked those flies out there, into that gale. The casts were only 30 feet anyway. If we know what we're doing we can put it together.

[Lasse Karlsson]

Mass is king

Cheers
Lasse

[Lasse Karlsson]

The closer it gets to throwing spinning tackle and the further away it gets from forming a loop, the more extreme the respective tackle differences become.

I blame Sage I also blame us for using the TCR5 for distance casting competitions!

Cheers, Paul

Since throwing a lure and throwing a flyline basicly is the same, what is your point again?

What where the CCS figures for your HT 5/6 again?



Cheers
Lasse

[VGB]

Hi Morsie, I had a similar experience in Iceland with Mark Surtees. We were out in a howling gale on top of a hill in an overgrown beat and not many others were able to fish. The set up that I had on the chalk was all I had in the car due to senility and was enough that I knocked out a few fish but it wasn't a pleasure to cast or fish like that in that environment. I wouldn't do it by choice. A #4 rod and #9 line might have solved both those problems but I'm not sure I would have caught much with the fish lying in knee deep water.

Regards

Vince

[Paul Arden]

Since throwing a lure and throwing a flyline basicly is the same, what is your point again?

I don’t think throwing a flyline and a lure is basically the same thing, otherwise spin anglers could all fly cast. The different between fly casting and spin casting is that the flyline is the weight and we cast it by forming a loop. If they can understand the loop then they can fly cast. Forming a loop in the flyline is not the same thing as throwing a spinner. There are some similarities of course, just as there are similarities to throwing a ball, dart or a javelin. Or for that matter cracking a whip.

Cheers, Paul

[Lasse Karlsson]

They can, they just don't throw their mistakes as far with a flyline as they do with a more compact castingweight..

And a loop forms after we have made our cast, ie accelerated our casting weight. Spin fishers do not need to understand a loop before they can cast, 99,99% of flyfishers haven't got a clue about it either

This seriously sound like the argument that to teach someone to throw 120 feet, one needs to be able to throw 130 themselves...

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

They can, they just don't throw their mistakes as far with a flyline as they do with a more compact castingweight..

Ok I’ll bite!

Why?

[Morsie]

Its easy to make a cast with a spin rod look like a cast with a fly rod, and it's easy to cast a spin rod when you have a serious fly casting background. The reality is that the impact of an improper acceleration with a spin rod has few consequences for the cast, its still going to get out there, whereas the acceleration and release that most spin casters use is a recipe for either tails or wide open loops with a fly rod. I teach a lot of people who come to fly casting after years of using spin and plug tackle, and mastering the subtleties of acceleration with a fly rod, (where if done incorrectly, the consequences for the cast are dire), is a looong battle for them. I'm talking people who throw hundreds of long casts in a day using a spin rod. They could do it with a spin rod for a thousand years and not throw a tailing loop. Can you throw a tailing loop with a spin rod?

[John Waters]

Improper acceleration with either a spinning reel or revolving drum reel has dire consequences. A break-off,birdsnest or both is the inevitable outcome. The only thing that reduces the chances of that is the breaking strain of the line. Again, the similarities between fly and spin casting are much more relevant and common than are often assumed in my opinion.

As in all types of casting the outcomes are often just a matter of degree.

John