Hi Slack, it's all in the situation. Did you check the new shooting head thread on the new board?. Lots of good information in it. I just added a picture of a 20 year old shooting head recommendation paper of Göran Andersson. It offered length and weight based on the room one had to make a D-loop. ...

I heard Steve Rajeff say that many good casters can cast farther with a DT line than with a WF. And which line can you cast farther: a WF or DT? Thanks, Randy For unhindered all out distance, the DT goes further in the right hands. But there is a reason why WF ar more popular ;) Hi Randy, Lasse (an...

I had that, too a) with wrappings and b) with the varnish on the blank. I think some types of varnish are completly resistant to water while others can absorb some water. If they do it may get "cloudy". Yet the clody colour was gone always after drying the rod again. Casting on grass on r...

Hi Paul, agree with most of what you wrote. As a guide you often see how effective (or not effective) different methods of presenting the fly to the fish work (like "DOG" pointed out). It easily might happen that one client catches fish after fish, while his buddy fishing next to him does...

As graphically explained here the fly leg of a D/V loop in a spey cast doesn’t load the rod. Anyone tried spey casting with a broomstick? Hi Magnus, casting a very stiff rod in (SH) Spey casting asks for quite small arcs, if one does not want to vary the y-position of the rod hand about a significa...

I can think of a lot of reasons why I decided to hire a guide in my own fishing trips. Sometimes it was about manovering the boat over long distances thru hundrets of islands to finally arrive in the perfect fishing spot. And then it was about fishing as a team and having the guide helping me to ma...

Hi Lasse, thanks. Throwing a 9 feet leader in a 90° angle on that distance is quite difficult. Well done though. The leader may look a bit short since it probably wasn't straight. Hard to see the leader exactly... To lay the hook to the opposite side - would you cast off shoulder or regular sided h...

Hi Akos, I agree with you the relationship between stiffness profile and tip bounce feels excellent on the HT. If it is different from other rods in the same area we should be able to measure that. Will deliever it's MOI soon. Still I would call the HT to be a pretty stiff tip action rod. Unless yo...

Paul, what makes the HT special compared to other fly rods? - graphite technology? - rod action? - stiffness profile? - mass distribution? - overall weight? - diameter? - MOI? Any (measurable) numbers in any category pointing out a difference? :cool: :blush: Did you get yourself another - well, som...

An rod with recoils should have a higher performance, because of a lower mass (the durability is another aspect). Of course you should be able to measure a higher frequency as well. Hi Torsten, nice post. Sounds very logical to me. About the higher performance I (think to) understand that the highe...

You could do the test for a range of mass and plot the settling time. This will tell you how the damping varies across the range of use. Vince, I will think about it. I would like to have two rods: One having very bad damping and one having "perfect" damping. And then see if I can detect ...

http://theowsky.solitip.com/index.p....emid=54 If you scroll down to: "Identification of the restoring force" you find a test which remembers me to the measurement I tried to make about the NF. Ludwig Reim claimed to measure the speed factor of the rod and then put out a sheet telling peo...

Tom, Sakari, I have clamped the rod at the grip section (like for the ERN measurement) and then put "some bend" to it. Grip fixed on the table and rod in the horizontal position. I let the tip go and tried to count the number of swings happening for a given time then. I can't remember the...