A long belly for a competition caster is usually something with a head length of 60+ feet and usually they have some funky tapers to them. They don't really need it, but it seems to be a market trend :D Cheers Lasse Lasse, Isn't the funky taper solely for fly delivery? (energy dissipation and turno...

I agree there are places you should have a guide. And there are situations where it is better for the fish. Hi Paul, which places do you think someone should have a guide? I think in a situation where there is a quota to protect a certain species of fish- limited fishing through a river where there...

...If you eat the fish you should probably take a shit in the river just to be ecologically correct! Where do you think most sewage goes? :p If the regs say no keeping- then let it go, dead or not. There is a chance that the fish might survive and if it doesn't at least it does go back to the syste...

I agree there are places you should have a guide. And there are situations where it is better for the fish. And some people are always better off Supervised! But to make some people have a guide (Non-residents) and not others (residents) is not about the fish or safety. If that was the case there w...

BC has a weird system- guides required to fish migratory fish in some places (even for Canadians), and in other places you just have to pay extra- no guide required. They argue that it is about protecting the resource, but I think it is truly about protecting the industry. In Newfoundland it is the...

But what I hate about Korkers is that the tip of the sole is always slippery stuff. I will not get ones before one can have the whole sole of the changeable sole material. Try climbing a stone when there is basically no traction under your toes. This is a big deal! I don't think the Korker system a...

LOL, I'll let Farrah take a look at this and respond if she wants... Lars, Farrah can out cast me on my 3 wt, has caught more grayling on the fly, and was a good biologist when she worked for Fisheries... she just doesn't understand my sense of "order" nor does she like the detail thinkin...