by Tim » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:20 pm
Thanks lads for all your help and I felt I owed you all an update.
I ended up with a 9 ft, 8 weight, 4 piece and 9 weight forward lines from Mullarkeys. Reel was an Okuma Airframe 7/9 . Had two shortish sessions with a professional coach, who normally salmon fishes. He said a couple of times the rod was quite powerful and seemed interested to know where I bought it. Perhaps he may be thinking of sea as well as fresh water fly fishing.
Anyway caught nothing but had some great fun trying to improve technique, so much so, I nearly forgot the whole purpose of fishing.. However, it made a blank day seem acceptable. Had a high speed fly hit the back of my head a couple of times, which certainly makes you check your technique for the next cast!
Two questions for you experts. I was eventually getting about 60 feet out (with some pretty awful style!) - is this about right? Secondly, it seemed to work better when I gave the line an extra tweak just before the fly left the water - it didn't always work but when it did, the line shot back very nicely. Is this another bad habit I've picked up?
Tim