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Here’s the ruling:
http://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/supopin/Conatser071808.pdfYou should probably just use garage band and the built in mic 😀 you should also post the podcast before 9 am Alaska time (1PM Eastern) so I can listen to it on the plane ride to yakutat (which last year had 15,000 steelhead!!)
Patrick, I’m confused.
Hi
I,m curious if anyone has experience fishing Bomber or Wally Walker patterns for anything other than Steelhead/Salmon. In particular  skating or rifle hitching them.
Will
Skating flies is in for the ’00’s! 😉
I have been skating, skittering and twitching for trout for a while now and it’s wild, man!
Couple things…
There are factors other than color, as far as color goes, it’s also translucence, etc.
The color that shows up in your image is only the color the camera/computer translates to your screen so it may not be the actual color of the bait fish.
The fish knows the exact color/translucence, etc, so by tying realistically, somehow or other the fly will be off and the fish will know it.
Anyone like classic Catskill dry flies?
I’m trying to tie some and get them framed. See the making of at my blog:
http://bassbug.blogspot.com/Jay
Pretty neat blog, Jay.
Along with the link to Dan Cook’s adventure, another guide to where I’d go with unlimited time/money would be the book “Fifty Places to Flyfish Before I Die”.
Not a bad title, huh? 😉
Further, I would travel/flyfish til I was physically unable or D – E- D and I would fly back and forth to my present home/friends from wherever I’m at in the world.
Dan and Zach have it about right, traveling in the northern and southern latitudes (longitudes?) that hold the best fishing for trout and then the islands in the middle of the globe for saltwater goodies.
I would also, only since money is no object in this exercise, have guides/boats/sherpas/ladies of the…, er, nurses, in case I get sick, flies tied by local professional tiers, ***** lodges, helicopters at the ready, fully loaded Land Cruisers attached to Class A Motor homes with a party room included for showing “home movies” only, of course, with a wine cellar full of local wines, then have the whole thing shipped around the world.
Oh, and a fishing equipped boat/yacht at my beck and call, complete with above acoutrements as in the motor home/Land Cruiser, of course.
Did I miss anything? ;D
You know, RSTrouts, while there may be situations when a wide loop can be advantageous, for instance when throwing a large, heavy fly into a wind, for the most part opening up a loop isn’t going to add any advantages to a cast of any fly. Â I can’t think of a single situation, dry fly or wet, where I’d want a big wide loop on a roll cast; not because a big wide loop might not deliver the fly, but because a tight strong loop would do it better. Â I really think a large loop’s best use is as a casting crutch when a tighter loop is resulting in tails too often and the flies are tangling. Â In that case I’d advise the angler to open them up, since a wider tailing loop is somewhat less likely to tangle than a smaller.
Loop size isn’t a function of speed at all, so I don’t think we need to address whether “fast” or “slow” are better (generally I’d argue a slow presentation is more life-like). Â Loop size is solely a function of how much arc the tip tracks before the power comes off of it; I sometimes throw 6″ loops that barely stay airborne when practicing shooting through hoops (a fun game).
An on the water roll is never an advantage over one that breaks free. Â That’s not to say it’s a bad cast, it isn’t. Â Typically a roll cast that stays attached to the water does so because the angler or the rod overstrikes, driving the tip well past horizontal and down into the water, dropping the lower leg of the loop on to the surface as well. Â What looks like a perfectly good cast is actually one that could have been quite a bit better. Â While a 20′ roll cast might never need to go airborne because it’s simply not that hard to make, that doesn’t detract anything from an airborne cast as a fishing cast. Â There are just no disadvantages I can come up with for a roll cast breaking free of the surface. Â
As for nymphs versus dries, well, I already said a slow cast is usually more lifelike, and that goes both ways. Â Wide or narrow loops have no real function here either; both are going to get the fly out there but one is going to be more accurate and easier to aim and less likely to result in a piled up crash cast than the other. Â So I guess I’d also always prefer a narrow loop to a wide. Â Finally as to this question:
“Should various casting types be related to each other to understand the overall fishing system or should casting techniques be related to fishing techniques and also related to tackle in order to understand the overall fishing system?”
Casting is pretty universal. Â Any rod under load is going to react in the same manner when the load comes off of it. Â Tackle can vary widely, but the fundamentals of casting hold true. Â I can’t honestly say I cast a 10 weight any different than a 3 weight when it comes to the basic movements of my body and the casts I select. Â I may use more power to handle the equipment, but I’m always going for the same goal: a tight-ish loop that I can aim well which will deliver the fly to the target I select in the most economical manner, without a lot of false casting and what my grandma called hemming and hawing.
HTH,
ZachWet is the exact opposite of dry, agreed?
If so, then wet and dry casting techniques, fishing methods and tackle selection should, ideally, be opposite, agreed?
My previous reply’s questions were made to ask about the *purpose* of various casts, rather than the *quality* of them, in relationship to the other parts of the fishing experience… fishing and tackle.
Yes, a wide loop is beneficial for the purpose of casting a heavy and/or wind resistant fly.
When casting a wet nymph terminal tackle fly to fish it under the water surface, which casting characteristics are more ideal…
Slow or fast?
Wide or narrow?
In the water roll or in the air forward/backward?
When casting a dry dun terminal tackle fly to fish it above the water surface, which casting characteristics are more ideal…
Slow or fast?
Wide or narrow?
In the water roll or in the air forward/backward?
Should various casting types be related to each other to understand the overall fishing system or should casting techniques be related to fishing techniques and also related to tackle in order to understand the overall fishing system?
Should the equation be casting technique = system
I pretty much match most of the hatches at some point during their period throughout the season, as I’m out on a regular basis throughout the season.
Rather than base your decisions simply by price and/or brand, since most brands cover the price and action range or rods anyway, choose your rod (tackle) in relation to the combination of *fishing* techniques and the *casting* techniques used within your *system*.
There is *Wet* System and *Dry* System.
Zach,
Hi Zach,
About 2 years ago, Jeremy Garmish, an Orvis guide from NY, posted a request on the Flyfisherman forum for someone local to show him, John (?) Dutcher, another Orvis guide from NY and John Wilson around the Vail area waters for the upcoming ESPN Great Outdoors Games Rocky Mountains Region Qualifier 2004.
