Bill Kiene semi-retired
01-26-2006, 10:26 AM
MidCurrent Weekly Newsletter January 25, 2006
Greetings!
FISH LONG ENOUGH, and even those casting errors that we thought were safely dismissed as beginners' mistakes will come back and bite us. Usually in the tuckus. Always at the wrong time.
That's why we shouldn't have been surprised by Lefty Kreh's response when we asked him what his first contribution to MidCurrent's 'Techniques' section should be. "I think a tailing loop is the most misunderstood thing in fly casting," he said, "and it is so easy to cure." This week you can read the simple fixes for what is probably the most common and persistent problem in casting in Lefty's "Curing the Tailing Loop."
in this issue
"Curing the Tailing Loop"
Week's Top Fly Fishing News
"The Last Link"
Book Review: "Fly-Fishing for Bonefish"
"The Inside Scoop"
Week's Top Fly Fishing News
When is a Rainbow Not a Rainbow?
The Blessed Curse of the Fly-Fishing Retailer Show
The Real Distances in Fly Fishing
Hatchery Fish Car History
Fly Fishing for Barracuda
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"The Last Link"
GENERALITIES ABOUT KNOTS are generally wrong or, at best, true only part of the time. But we can rely on one general statement: There is no single best knot for attaching every hook to every type of line.
Be wary of claims about the efficiency of knots. When you read that the Reversed Triple Fubar has 97 percent breaking strength — that it retains 97 percent of the strength of the unknotted line — slam on the brakes. Does the author offer any evidence? Or is he merely repeating a figure that he read in an article by an author who heard the claim from a friend?
Read more...
Book Review: "Fly-Fishing for Bonefish"
WHEN YOU CONSIDER that the bonefish was the first saltwater game fish to rise in status from curiosity to addiction among fly fishers, it’s not hard to understand the fascination shared by authors. The study — around 50 years in the making — includes the anecdotal and the scientific and the closely held secrets of folks who’ve never read a fishing magazine or experienced the episodic rhapsody of fishing television.
But at the same time bonefish are a relatively new curiosity. Anglers don’t benefit from what might be called folk wisdom in the trout angler's world; we haven’t domesticated the knowledge yet. In fact bonefish expertise is highly distributed, sometimes secreted away, even across geographic boundaries.
Read on...
"The Inside Scoop"
MOST FLYFISHERMEN are so intent on their own processes — making the right cast, mending correctly, and watching the fly or strike indicator — that they don't bother to observe what the other anglers on the river are doing. When you work as a fishing guide, however, you spend a lot of time, without a rod in your hand, watching other people fish. It's an interesting experience, because you get to see many different angling styles — some good, some not so good — and you develop a keen eye for anticipating the most common mistakes that fly fishermen make. If you can keep your client from committing one of these angling sins, he's got a better chance of catching fish.
Read on...
"Curing the Tailing Loop"
PERHAPS THE BIGGEST problem facing anyone who can fly cast beyond 45 feet is a tailing loop. A tailing loop is when the leader and the front of the line crash into the main line near the end of the cast. While tailing loops can occur anytime, they usually develop in a longer cast — especially when the angler makes an extra effort to gain a greater distance than they can comfortably cast.
Fortunately, anyone can eliminate tailing loops by applying a very few simple casting procedures
Read on....
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Greetings!
FISH LONG ENOUGH, and even those casting errors that we thought were safely dismissed as beginners' mistakes will come back and bite us. Usually in the tuckus. Always at the wrong time.
That's why we shouldn't have been surprised by Lefty Kreh's response when we asked him what his first contribution to MidCurrent's 'Techniques' section should be. "I think a tailing loop is the most misunderstood thing in fly casting," he said, "and it is so easy to cure." This week you can read the simple fixes for what is probably the most common and persistent problem in casting in Lefty's "Curing the Tailing Loop."
in this issue
"Curing the Tailing Loop"
Week's Top Fly Fishing News
"The Last Link"
Book Review: "Fly-Fishing for Bonefish"
"The Inside Scoop"
Week's Top Fly Fishing News
When is a Rainbow Not a Rainbow?
The Blessed Curse of the Fly-Fishing Retailer Show
The Real Distances in Fly Fishing
Hatchery Fish Car History
Fly Fishing for Barracuda
Read the MidCurrent News...
"The Last Link"
GENERALITIES ABOUT KNOTS are generally wrong or, at best, true only part of the time. But we can rely on one general statement: There is no single best knot for attaching every hook to every type of line.
Be wary of claims about the efficiency of knots. When you read that the Reversed Triple Fubar has 97 percent breaking strength — that it retains 97 percent of the strength of the unknotted line — slam on the brakes. Does the author offer any evidence? Or is he merely repeating a figure that he read in an article by an author who heard the claim from a friend?
Read more...
Book Review: "Fly-Fishing for Bonefish"
WHEN YOU CONSIDER that the bonefish was the first saltwater game fish to rise in status from curiosity to addiction among fly fishers, it’s not hard to understand the fascination shared by authors. The study — around 50 years in the making — includes the anecdotal and the scientific and the closely held secrets of folks who’ve never read a fishing magazine or experienced the episodic rhapsody of fishing television.
But at the same time bonefish are a relatively new curiosity. Anglers don’t benefit from what might be called folk wisdom in the trout angler's world; we haven’t domesticated the knowledge yet. In fact bonefish expertise is highly distributed, sometimes secreted away, even across geographic boundaries.
Read on...
"The Inside Scoop"
MOST FLYFISHERMEN are so intent on their own processes — making the right cast, mending correctly, and watching the fly or strike indicator — that they don't bother to observe what the other anglers on the river are doing. When you work as a fishing guide, however, you spend a lot of time, without a rod in your hand, watching other people fish. It's an interesting experience, because you get to see many different angling styles — some good, some not so good — and you develop a keen eye for anticipating the most common mistakes that fly fishermen make. If you can keep your client from committing one of these angling sins, he's got a better chance of catching fish.
Read on...
"Curing the Tailing Loop"
PERHAPS THE BIGGEST problem facing anyone who can fly cast beyond 45 feet is a tailing loop. A tailing loop is when the leader and the front of the line crash into the main line near the end of the cast. While tailing loops can occur anytime, they usually develop in a longer cast — especially when the angler makes an extra effort to gain a greater distance than they can comfortably cast.
Fortunately, anyone can eliminate tailing loops by applying a very few simple casting procedures
Read on....
Quick Links...
Newsletter Archive
Related Topics
More About Us
Join our mailing list!
email: news@midcurrent.com
phone: 239.437.2348
web: http://www.midcurrent.com