Fishing The Fly Scotland

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Title: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/11/2016 at 14:13
Don't take your 'How to' book to the river ........................ :z4

Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/11/2016 at 15:03
That's better ...... Lee Wulff "Autumn silver" :cool:

Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 22/11/2016 at 15:40
Nice Vids Mike had good laugh at the first one ,Joan Wulff is a good caster, very controlled, easgach 1
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/11/2016 at 21:18
Yes, I thought the first one was quite funny :z4

I enjoyed the second one too. I wonder what reaction we might get if we turned up on a Scottish salmon beat with a short single handed rod nowadays?

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 23/11/2016 at 08:38
When Joan first lifts into a salmon (and the reel over runs..ooops) did anyone notice the 3 black marks on the lone, just above her hand? Any ideas that they are for?

As for the idea of a short single handed rod for salmon, Jim Somers used to have a fair few cane blanks in the shop that were just such rods, all destined for the US and the Wulffs. The one I remember most was 6'6" swelled butt for a 7 weight. That had the Lee Wulff "signature" on it but I forget the name of it.
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Peter McCallum on 23/11/2016 at 09:15
My favourite notion was the 5'10" one piece rod they made   :z12
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 23/11/2016 at 09:58
When Joan first lifts into a salmon (and the reel over runs..ooops) did anyone notice the 3 black marks on the lone, just above her hand? Any ideas that they are for?
head length.
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 23/11/2016 at 14:07
head length.

I did think that..but its a few feet onto the reel (I guess it could be a posed "hit").

Its the fact it was three marks, not just one to suffice a head length.
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Mike Thornton on 23/11/2016 at 15:29
Three or more black (or some other colour) marks, spaced at about one inch intervals along 6 to 9 inches of your running line, is a commonly recognized method of marking  your preferred loading point.   A sequence of marks is far easier to see than a single mark.
Just put them on with a marker pen.
Title: Re: How not to learn fly fishing?
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 23/11/2016 at 18:14
(I guess it could be a posed "hit").
looked pretty obvious to me. it's not like the cameraman would sit there, focussed on her all day waiting for an eventual strike.  :z4
besides, this wasn't digital but film. very expensive film & development even if it's most probably 8mm.


Its the fact it was three marks, not just one to suffice a head length.
what redfish said  :z16