Fishing The Fly Scotland Forum

Lasse Karlsson

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« Reply #100 on: 09/03/2013 at 19:07 »
For those of you that made 27g sea trout distance heads from the GT140, please note that this doesn't work with the new GT125 in my experience.

Don't panick :shock ...... Coming soon ..... the new Barrio ST27 :wink

Best wishes
Mike

Hi Mike

I hope those heads are as good as the GT140 cuts  :wink

Just been out in a good howling tailwind and put a meter on my PB with the seatrout distance outfit  :z13

Guess it's time for a new measuring tape again  :X2

Cheers
Lasse

Mike Barrio

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« Reply #101 on: 09/03/2013 at 20:37 »
Great stuff Lasse :z16

Yes, I hope you like them ... we are certainly getting on better with the prototype ST27 heads than we did with the GT140 cuts :cool:

Cheers
Mike

PS: Awesome avatar!

Lasse Karlsson

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« Reply #102 on: 09/03/2013 at 21:46 »
Hi Mike

Thanks  :z16

Cheers
Lasse

Ps. My measuring tape is 60  :z7

Mike Barrio

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« Reply #103 on: 10/03/2013 at 10:56 »
Hi Korrie,
Great to hear from you! :z16

Hi Lasse,
Yes, you need a new one, 60 ft is not really long enough! :z4

Hi Lindsay.
Olive Mallard DT2F is now available :cool:

Cheers
Mike

Lasse Karlsson

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« Reply #104 on: 10/03/2013 at 12:26 »

Hi Lasse,
Yes, you need a new one, 60 ft is not really long enough! :z4

Best wishes
Mike

Yeah I know, I just like it when I can cast to the end of it  :X4


Mike Barrio

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« Reply #105 on: 10/03/2013 at 13:25 »
Great stuff Lasse :z16

Cheers
Mike

Ben Dixon

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« Reply #106 on: 10/03/2013 at 18:02 »
That's a very long way Lasse, nice casting!!

I've definitely still got some work to do!

Any idea what the wind strength was?


Cheers

Ben

Hamish Young

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« Reply #107 on: 10/03/2013 at 18:11 »
Any idea what the wind strength was?

Max says.....



And I think he was probably right  :wink

Lasse Karlsson

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« Reply #108 on: 10/03/2013 at 18:24 »
Max says.....



And I think he was probably right  :wink


Indeed:


Just been out in a good howling tailwind and put a meter on my PB with the seatrout distance outfit  :z13


Cheers
Lasse

About twice as much as I had when I threw a meter shorter  :X1
The weather people said 11 m/s  :wink

Cheers
Lasse

Hamish Young

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« Reply #109 on: 10/03/2013 at 18:33 »
The weather people said 11 m/s  :wink

Around 25 mph or between a force 5 or 6 on the beaufort scale.
Windy.

H :cool:

Andrew Parker

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« Reply #110 on: 30/04/2013 at 12:15 »
euro-nymphing in it's strictest sense, is/was never about casting size 20 dry flies but teams of very heavy tungsten-filled nymphs. it's much closer to lure/spinning/whatever where the the weight at the tip (flies) pulls the line. this doesn't leave much possibilities for loops, therefore the lobbing.

as far as nymphing is concerned, basically the confusion stems from many people hybridizing different methods while calling them french, czech or whatever. i of course have no problems with myself or others mixing methods, it's the spice of life but let's be real, we're not nymphing if we're casting dry flies...

cheers,
marc

Not sure I can let you get away with the term "Euro-nymphying" Marc. Thought that is a term only 'mericans use?

I understand the term "French nymphing" was introduced to the UK by competitors who had taken part in the CEFF World Flyfishing Championship, held in France in 2002. (The French won the World's in four consecutive years around that time.) It was the name given to the winning tactic for the French team that year: used for winkling super-spooky fish out of skinny, clear water.

It can be grouped with "Czech nymphing" (or Polish nymphing as the Poles would have it) only as a flyfishing technique, first observed in competition, and named (in English at least) after the team who won the competition using the tactic. You probably know the English love naming things after other nationalities, usually disparagingly e.g. Dutch courage; French letter. In the case of these nymphing techniques the English competitors were blown-away by the techniques they had witnessed.

As for the unchallenged statement about "lobbing". Like any other form of flycasting, casting a team of heavy nymphs it is all about maintaining tension throughout the system, and to do it well even involves fishing the drift to a downstream position where the current will establish tension (let's not mention water tension tho'). If the definition of casting a fly is: "casting an effectively weightless artificial fly using a weighted line", then heavy nymphing does not conform.

Well made long or French leaders can be "cast" ... and I've been out and done it this morning without any tungsten. Using 6 metre hand tied (not by me) leader on both my 6'6" #2 and 10'0" #4 with little or no flyline outside of the rod tip. Again it might confuse the definitions police, but whilst there was negligible weight, there was a loop ... of course, a well-controlled loop because I was behind it  :z7.

Enjoy Strathdon!

All the best, Andrew

Lasse Karlsson

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« Reply #111 on: 30/04/2013 at 21:04 »
Hi Andrew

Any piece of string can be cast with a loop   :)

What Marc is getting at is that very few people cast a leader with a controlled loop and a heavy weighted fly, most lob it....

Cheers
Lasse

Mike Barrio

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« Reply #112 on: 18/06/2013 at 17:18 »
Having fun with the double handed lines :z12



Allan Liddle

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« Reply #113 on: 18/06/2013 at 17:44 »
Cracking pic Mike  :z16

Euan Innes

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« Reply #114 on: 10/08/2013 at 22:55 »
Mike,
Any news on when the salmon lines might see the light of day?
I've had a look round at what else is out there and I need the old Barrio value pack.
I like Mackenzie shooting heads, really like, but knowing you the lines will be as cool and less coin.
So, come on Mike, when, when, when???
Might need a #9 soon  :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4

 :z1

Mike Barrio

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« Reply #115 on: 12/08/2013 at 12:24 »
Hi Euan :cool:

I'm very pleased with the line profiles, these are ready to go, we just need to put more hours in on the water with them before I can produce the retail stock :z16

Cheers
Mike

Euan Innes

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« Reply #116 on: 12/08/2013 at 14:56 »
Well get back on the water Mike and stop faffing about on the forum!  :z7

Excellent news Mike. Looking forward to trying these lines.
(guess who's got the salmon bug again)

 :z1

Hamish Young

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« Reply #117 on: 12/08/2013 at 19:22 »
guess who's got the salmon bug again

Kev ???  :z13

 




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