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  1. Top striker and Puppet, when experimenting with the Okuma sur rods, how do you modify handles for 2H casting? Do you cover the stock reel seats?
  2. Organize shooting heads on a budget or a low budget leader or shooting head wallet. Tested for two months and seem sturdy enough.
  3. Settle down gentlemen the kindly ocean might get angry. Being a terrible Spey caster and a novice two hand overhead caster makes me ineligible to comment but differences of opinion are as as numerous as the number of websites so let’s get together and have an out front two handed spey and and overhead clinic, symposium, meeting, conclave or pow wow and try to arrive at a compromise or consensus or understanding.
  4. Get fishing parking permit for Gateway National recreation Area, I believe it’s online now and explore. Plenty of flats near parking areas. Use Eldridge Tide and Pilot Guide and Nautical charts like those from NOAA to help as well. Join Salty Flyrodders of New York.
  5. Mike, WhatsApp off forum mini project is a great idea. When the weather breaks here in the northeast US from rain, floods, wind and cold I will get a WhatsApp video together of my pathetic Spey casting. PM you for a WhatsApp address or phone number?
  6. Mike, what exactly is the anchor? Never could quite figure it out except, it is approximately the rod length from the caster. Is it the fly, leader, and about a foot or so of fly line with everything else off the water or is it the tip of your fly line. So for example in the first case with a 9ft rod if you have a 7 ft leader then the anchor is leader plus two additional feet of fly line or in the second case is it roughly 9 ft of fly line tip end from the caster on the water.
  7. There are no objective measurements of suppleness for monofilament supplied by manufacturers so any discussion of their use as shooting line is based on advertising, reputation and anecdotal reports. Young’s Modulus or Modulus of Elasticity measures the flexibility of monofilaments and plots of Young’s Modulus vs temperature from 10 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit would be tremendously illuminating and should be included in box or with spools of line. This would take the guess work out of choosing monofilaments for running line and also serve as a basis for comparing monofilaments, coated and braided running line. Methods exist to measure Young’s Modulus such as ASTM D638 - Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics ISO 527-1:2012 - Determination of tensile properties. General principles and could easily be refined for monofilaments or fishing line. Engineering data and test methods are sorely lacking in the sport fishing industry and nebulous claims describing monofilaments like limp, high tensile strength, professional, designed and tested by top captains, slick, little memory, consistent performance in hot and cold conditions pervade. The website ultimatuk.com is a good starting point and discusses many properties of monofilament but doesn’t propose any industrial standards or measurements.
  8. About 4 years ago I tried ProSpec, not ProSpec Chrome, and didn’t like it. Big Game seemed to be more supple. I don’t remember but I may have been fishing the ProSpec in 40 degree temperatures for white perch.
  9. What temperatures have you tried it in?
  10. I would buy some Prospect chrome to try
  11. No. Made an mistake in the post with the Cortland running line photo but I would like to try it as well. Now I use 1. Berkeley Big Game 40 lb 2. Max Catch coated running line 3. Gudebrod braided nylon butt leader 35 lb 4. For fresh water sometimes Old Scientific Angler level coated running line cut back because end close to shooting head cracked badly. Would also like to try Scientific Angler Flat Mono shooting line and their braided nylon shooting line and Cortlands Braid and all the others out there. When I started using shooting heads the choices in running line were Amnesia, Scientific Angler level floating coated line and some iconoclasts were using gudebrod butt leader. The choices now are multiplied by at least 20 times but that has only added more confusion and uncertainty just like everything else from fly rods to fly reels to fly lines to lawn mowers to fridges to flat screen TVs to popular psychological terms to ….. I have nostalgia for the days of double taper fly lines made by Cortland and Scientific Angler but it seem like diversity of manufactured goods in specific markets is becoming like the diversity of people one meets in a lifetime.
  12. Maybe I am overthinking this but air and water temperature may be a factor in using monofilament shooting lines. Around Halloween in the northeast Berkeley Big Game is supple enough without stretching or soaking or fabric softener even if it’s stored for awhile on the reel but a month later in early December the same line keeps cooling and is difficult to use. I used Scientific Anglers level coated running line for years but it tended to wear quickly and crack after a year of intense use. Then I switched to Gudebrod nylon braided Butt Leader in 35 lb test which was way more durable and flexible at all temperatures and shot well but doubts were seeded for it use on the beach by comments online that it collects sand particles which slowly saw your guides. It was also easy to splice with no bloody finger but it’s not made anymore since sadly Gudebrod went out of business. A study of the flexibility of various monofilaments and coated level lines versus temperature would be interesting and could resolve some fly fishing issues instead of relying on anecdotal reports. As Killiefish observed one size doesn’t fit all.
  13. Shoot, I thought Mike Oliver was going to teach Spey casting in this post in 3 easy steps, but now I see the light. I have never been able to teach myself single handed or double handed Spey casting from demonstrations online, which there are plenty of, so I’ve come to the conclusion that I need a teacher or mentor. When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
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