Zach Matthews
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Hey Kevin –
Unless you want to try your hand at taking pictures for magazines, and you might, that Pentax Optio WP series is excellent – probably the best fishing camera on the market.
The higher end DSLRs with the underwater housings become extremely bulky – almost the size of a women’s basketball once they are all assembled.
Here’s some of the early technology in the works:
http://www.solarbuzz.com/news/NewsNAPT78.htm
Speaking of military…
Zach
Hey, sorry BassetHound and Kirk for missing you guys.
Razorbacks are playing right now but I am still in the room if you want to pop back in.
Hey Cameron –
The order is in but CustomInk.com wasn’t equipped to take Paypal, where I had been holding all of the folks’ money (this non-cominglng stuff you learn in law is a good practice anyway).
That v-loop or airfoil loop is probably a result of a change in your stroke, not the rod itself.
My best distance cast ever is a 116′ cast with a St. Croix Pro Graphite and a 6 weight SA XXD floating line. I’ve thrown a lot longer casts but never any that were this good relative to the weight of the rod. My point is the fastest, most expensive rod is only a tool and a tool is only as good as its user. The TCR will give you a slight performance boost, but the fundamentals of the long cast are still the same.
I am pretty sure the airfoil loop is created naturally when the rod turns over in straight line path. There is a bit of a two-step hinge to the human wrist as it goes from bent to straight to slightly over bent, but you will only see this effect on a cast with all extraneous power wastage (ie loops out of plane) taken out of the cast. The easiest way to create the airfoil is to use a very long rod. For some reason this almost always forces it to occur. On a smaller rod, focus on tip tracking and making sure the loops turn over “over their own shadow.”
I was able to attain considerable distance with an outright sidearmed backcast but after a lot of study and closely watching Lefty Kreh, who my stroke most resembles, I realized that Lefty bends his wrist in the backcast almost ninety degrees *toward his body*. Thus, his hand is actually tracking exactly like it would if it were coming straight over his shoulder – the rod doesn’t rotate out of true, it simply moves back and forth out to the side instead of over his shoulder.
I experimented a little and found that I could throw in what amounts to a “j-stroke” at the end of my backcast. Basically as the rod is unloading in the backcast I very slightly, almost imperceptibly jerk the butt of the rod forward, thus pulling the rod straight just a hair faster. I then realized I could aim the backcast better with this technique. Today I will throw line very high in the backcast in order to let a lot of it unroll before beginning the forward cast. Contrary to popular belief you do not want the backcast to be unrolling as you start the forward cast – rather you want it completely unrolled and still tugging on the rod with a bare minimum of momentum. That will line up the backcast with the trajectory of the forward cast and put the maximum amount of grains of line in play to help load the rod.
HTH,
ZachI had a buddy in and together with Lauren we hiked and fished the Bald River Canyon, a tributary of the Tellico, and got skunked, then fished the Holston and caught a bunch of stockers.
I recorded an audiolog for the podcast from this trip which will be pretty cool.