I was on the river yesterday trying this concept out. I noticed that this technique made a huge difference. I was able to keep the fly leg outside the rod leg through out the rollover with the above technique. Without it, the fly leg crosses over the rod leg. The cast looks a lot less clumsier and ...

I was reading the Torque posting and noted posting #59 by Stoatstail50 regarding twisting rod along it's longitudinal axis vs wrist twisting. The latter travels the rod tip than the former. Some exploratory thoughts here: I remember seeing Henrik Mortensen casting whereby his counter-flex travels t...

I can't see the line and rod tip against the clouds, so to me it is more of not having a sufficiently contrasting background to show up. If you choose to re-record it, I would like to suggest wrapping the rod with teflon plumbers tape, and against a darker background. After starting out with hands ...

Hi eccles, this is a good and interesting topic. As noble as the topic is, I think a code of conduct is much like leaves to a tree. Perhaps there can be an augmenting this code by also looking at the root of the tree, providing a powerful context to these codes. This way there is a self generating ...

I think loop to loop as you mentioned is the most flexible way to keep down amount of reels, but have plenty of lines to use. I was told use a Triple surgeon knot for the line backing if not fighting big fish, but use Bimini twist for serious fighting. As for the fly end, I nail knot a folded tag o...

I wanted to throw this out here as perhaps a clarification and delineation between style and substance. The way this thread has morphed may make this look out of place, but here goes. I like to think Style is related to a repeated set of motions, a pattern of sequences and timing one adopts to get ...

I am a proponent of eventually allowing my movements to self organize around a goal or target, rather than to lock down the right permutation of constraining the degrees of freedom in our joints. It is like throwing darts. If the person misses, they simply readjust themselves based on feedback, rat...

Fanaticism- of whatever the choosing- often crosses over into Imposition as a means of keeping afloat one's self- strengthening of one's identity. No one can stay in Keeping-Fanaticism-to-themselves forever because it loses it's edge, and thus the self- strengthening it provides goes flat. It is li...

This was what I posted in the 3 evolution stages of casting, excerpting from Bruce Lee's 'The Warrior within': Stage 1: The primitive stage: It is the stage of original ignorance in which the person knows nothing about the art of combat. In a fight, he simply blocks and strikes instinctively withou...

OK, tried out this rod with the Rio line. Hmm, not so good. It was too stiff and I was accelerating the rod hurriedly to get some mid and lower section bending. But I still like the rod for the 9 and 10 wght commission. Esa, somehow 290 grains over 75 feet does not load as well as 290 grains over 3...

Could be, but it's still anthropomorphizing to even guess they select their catch simply for this reason. I am wondering if there was a test to see animals and the preservation of their food chain is coincidental, or by design? Will a creature knowingly eat up all its food source that causes their ...