Hello, after reading this interesting discussion I miss one question: How professional are our organisations itself, better - how professional they can be or act? The FFF is by far the biggest one with the biggest financial background. Therefore they have more potential to deploy programs, retestin...

Hello all, I think this is sort of hairsplitting. There are two basic versions of a roll: 1. The line doesn't leave the water while bringing the rod backwards. 2. The line leave the water and anchor somewhere sideways the caster on the water. It's that simple. All socalled definitions like dynamic-...

Hi all, I use another trick to get the mentioned load out from a back shooting line into my forward stroke. I hold a loop of about 1.5metres in my line hand and let the loop go on the last backcast. When the loop is gone through the guides then you feel a tuck in the line. When you get used to it y...

canesplitter wrote:I reckon Roberto is the only one who casts tlt technique in perfection.

Hello Christian,

And Gebetsroither was the only one who casts the austrian style :-)

Style over style! Don't copy, better invent/find your own style.

Hello Stefan, I understand what you mean. Underlining a rod will make a fast rod. That's paraticed in the 90ies by several manufacturerers and much earlier it was a selling point for very famous splitcane rods from Walter Brunner. If you took his Brunner Cherie: It was marked as a class 5/6 but cou...

Hi Stefan, Yes! Everything related to flycasting ist interesting, but for me this style isn't very comfortable to cast. As I mentioned earlier I've no mediterranian temperament ;-) I do over- or underline a rod if it makes sense to me (very long casts or very short casts). The load of the rod judge...