Fly replacement

[stevie d]

What do you guys use in place of a fly for casting practice/competition?I use a piece of wool doubled over and often turnover is poor with this.Is there a better solution ?I realise that my casting technique will be at fault as well but also wanted to know what the prefered fly replacement is.
Steve.

[Lasse Karlsson]

Hi Stevie

It depends on the competition, most distance comps use only a piece of fluff (wool or eggyarn) a few a hackled fly with the hookbend clipped of. Most accuracy comp's use the hackled fly with hookbend cliped of a few a piece of fluff.

Most competitions also have requirements as to what thickness leader/tippet are to be used.

Best thing is to look at the requirements for the competitions you are looking to practice for, and use something similar.

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

It could also be a problem with the leader, Steve. In fact this is more likely. I use 9ft RIO trout leaders to ten pounds, but there are plenty of guys who are very particular about their leaders - especially so in the accuracy games.

Cheers, Paul

[stevie d]

It could also be a problem with the leader, Steve. In fact this is more likely. I use 9ft RIO trout leaders to ten pounds, but there are plenty of guys who are very particular about their leaders - especially so in the accuracy games.

Cheers, Paul

These leaders are 10lbs at the point yes?,will have to look into leader set up more closely.