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- Sat Feb 02, 2013 9:34 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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Hi Larry I'm not sure you understood me :) There's nothing new about DT's, they have been around about as long as speycasting. If it's all about full blown distance with no restrictions in backcast space etc. then a DT will also win over the WF in the hands of a capable caster. Sincve we very rarel...
- Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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- Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:51 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
- Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
Hi Randy
Found the specs on the RIO, it has a 47 feet head
http://www.kennebecriveroutfitters.com/nwsj_404.htm
Cheers
Lasse
Found the specs on the RIO, it has a 47 feet head

http://www.kennebecriveroutfitters.com/nwsj_404.htm
Cheers
Lasse
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:31 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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Hi Randy The better distance casters are around 130-135 feet on their good casts now adays at sealevel, this from a 85-90 foot carry. It's a bit hard to measure, since we tend to let go, but most have a max carry just above 90 feet, and the best casts almost always comes from a more controlled and ...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:18 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:47 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:47 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
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...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:53 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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- Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:00 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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Hi Silver It depends on the person you ask :) Generally a DT is a DT. There's some funky tapers out there called DT's. But for the majority, it's a taper, a long level piece and then a taper. A WF is a taper, a level piece, then a taper and then a longer thinner level piece. Usually the head portio...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:47 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
Hi Silver I guess they used a XXD in the test because it is a popular line in competitions and that makes it easier to compare. And longbelly lines aren't made to eliminate overhang, just to get a longer working length of line in front of the overhang. And the three lines in the study by Ulrik and ...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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Hi Randy It's not that the rod slows down, it is simply that with overhang on a WF/Shootinghead/DT(last one really means alot of backing outside the tiptop, rarely seen) the loop starts to fall apart, it's not stable if it has to start far into the runningline and then move over to thicker flyline....
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:02 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
Hi Randy
The flycast doesn't work that way
http://vimeo.com/35066178
Cheers
Lasse
The flycast doesn't work that way

http://vimeo.com/35066178
Cheers
Lasse
- Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:25 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29289
Hi Randy At 30 feet both the WF and the DT should weigh the same according to AFFTA standard. At 60 feet the DT will usually weigh more than the WF, and at full length the DT is alot heavier. Thing is, a good caster can carry almost all, if not all, of most DT lines and cast them as a shootinghead,...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:40 pm
- Forum: Flycasting - 2 Handed
- Topic: Rod Loading - Spring v Lever
- Replies: 602
- Views: 184403
Hi MagnusMagnus wrote:Anyone tried spey casting with a broomstick?Aitor wrote:As graphically explained here the fly leg of a D/V loop in a spey cast doesn’t load the rod.
Only singlehanded, feels the same as overhead with a broomstick

Light...
Cheers
Lasse