Could you please look into a predator line please.
Could you please look into a predator line please. The ones available just now are at least £50 and I can see a UK produced predator line doing well thanks to the huge increase in this form of fishing.
Just a thought....Something along the lines of an Outbound maybe (at £70 they are a high cost).
Yes! New lines are always interesting :z5
My ideas for a seatrout distance head would include a long fronttaper(6-7m) to a thin tip, a backtaper about 1.5-2m and a total length of about 17m :z7
The prototype DH15 head has given me some truly awesome distances on my MacKenzie DTX G2 15'er.
(http://i48.tinypic.com/1235ttf.jpg)
Really pleased with the way this one is flying :cool:
Cheers
Ben
The gt140 is a great line unchopped, but without the mass in the runningline I have trouble keeping the loop "alive" -> it collapses.
In the 15' spey event i'm using a nextcast champ cut back to approx. 72ft. Really good line when there is no or little waves and a good tailwind. When there are waves about I borrow a friends line (TSD spey by Tellis Katsogiannis) cut back to about 70ft. The TSD is much easier to lift when it's a bit wavy.
... I take it there is more weight at the back of the TSD than there is at the nack of the Nextcast? ....
15' heads flying well too.
You're right about that Ben :grin
Not a big fan of amnesia, I'd look at Berkley Ironsilk if you can find it, but anything goes as long as it's thick enough :cool:
Good luck if you get up there, there are seriously some of the best casters around hidden away in Northern Sweden, but you've met some of them already so you know :oops
Cheers
Lasse
Hi Lasse
Welcome to the forum :z16
I'm hoping to go to Pitea with Ben too .... as it is important to have somebody willing to come last in the competition! :z4
Best wishes
Mike
Is there any news on the salmon spey lines. I'm needing a new one but will hold off if there is going to be a new one soon.
Cheers,
C.
Don't panick :shock ...... Coming soon ..... the new Barrio ST27 :wink
Feature preview please! :z5
Length, taper and weight would be interesting to know. (Weight to give an idea of how much room there is for "tweaking")
\\ /Joakim
The short cut will go 40m farly consistenly in a flat calm and I've thrown it 48.3m (158') this morning in a good tail wind which is a new PB for me.
The downside of #0 and #1 lines is that there aren't many #0 and #1 rods out there? No reason why I can't produce the lines though :cool:
How about you technical guru Barrio Line Boffins designing an "ultra light" trout line AFTM #0, #1 etc as an alternative/replacement to French Leader (which seems big just now).Lindsay
I think these commercial "French leaders" are a rip off at £7 each for a bit of tapered nylon..
hi guys,
czech, polish, french etc nymphing: you're missing the point.
you can see the fly line is inside the rip rings
Casting or more truthfully lobbing up stream & fishing the pockets as the fly dead
drifts back towards you. Fishing either Nymph style or dry fly. Largest tippet being 5X.Alex
Hi, so this is the bit I am stuck on. There is no way on earth you can "lob" a size 18 dry fly :)
So, can anyone please clarify :)
Hi, so this is the bit I am stuck on. There is no way on earth you can "lob" a size 18 dry fly :)
Still need a fly line to pack out the reel Mike! Don't want nasty coils on your 60ft leader now do you.
A topic about fly lines ... and we discuss not using one ... I love it :z4 :z4 :z4:z4 :z4 :z4 :z18
Cheers
Mike
Still need a fly line to pack out the reel Mike! Don't want nasty coils on your 60ft leader now do you.
I will try to get Korrie Broos to come on and explain...but I can assure you you can lob a
size 22 midge pattern, as I have said I have done it & caught fish.
I cannot see any difference between French Laeader techniques and Tenkara.
it's like comparing elephants and shoe-laces... ZX2
it's like comparing elephants and shoe-laces... ZX2
euro-nymphing in it's strictest sense, is much closer to lure/spinning
...but let's be real, we're not nymphing if we're casting dry flies...
PS I find that using my completely reduntant CDC Gel/Oil to lubricate my rod rings gives excellent "shoot"
Anything that requires ring lubrication is not for me
Anything that requires ring lubrication is not for me
but I have a #2 on order at the factory.
I will try to get Korrie Broos to come on and explain...but I can assure you you can lob a
size 22 midge pattern, as I have said I have done it & caught fish.
The technique is to place your thumb along the top of the handle & imagine there is a small 1" ring
on top of you rod "where a hook holder would go but on the opposite side" & you have to put your
thumb through the hole. Very much a wrist action & using the drag on the fly as it goes behind you
to add tension, bit like forming a "D" with a double hander.
Hope that sounds less complicated to you guys than it does to me reading it back.
Alex
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 Lasse,
Yes, you need a new one, 60 ft is not really long enough! :z4
Best wishes
Mike
Any idea what the wind strength was?
Max says.....(http://i45.tinypic.com/2zsbaf9.jpg)
And I think he was probably right :wink
Just been out in a good howling tailwind and put a meter on my PB with the seatrout distance outfit :z13
Cheers
Lasse
The weather people said 11 m/s :wink
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
guess who's got the salmon bug again