SEXYLOOPSFPHTOCREVIEWSCONTENTSSHOPVIDEO Mayfly on the Dee Sunday, 6 June 2021. Last weekend’s BFCC meeting went well with lots of happy casters attending. Things were helped by the fantastic weather, hot enough to dispense with the fleeces and cast in a T-shirt, plus a bit of wind to make the competition casters

smile.

SEXYLOOPS FLYCASTING CONTENTS The Manual: Introduction to the Flycasting Manual Stroke analysis: The introduction to the Dirty Harry Series. Overhead Cast - Basics. Basics: Basic principles behind flycasting and the overhead cast Español STOP!: The "STOP" Directions: Changing direction Español Flex: Rod flex and the stop – includes video and animated gif Less Power!: Minimum power in flycasting - includes videos THE GRIP – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS In the USA and UK most instructors start out by teaching this thumb-on-top grip. In Continental Europe it is more common to begin with a finger pointing grip. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. FLY REEL DRAGS AND STUFF The Draw Bar Disc Drag Perhaps the most common drag in modern reels is the draw bar disc drag. In this system two or more circular discs are compressed against each other, and at least one of the discs can rotate only one direction. AFTM TABLE - SEXYLOOPS AFTMA stands for the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association. Just in case you were wondering. The AFTM is a scale of line weights. The heavier the line, the greater the AFTM number. The manufacturers weigh the first 10 yards excluding the level tip

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

RODS FOR STILLWATERS My personal choice for stillwater is a fast progressive actioned rod, of nine to nine and a half feet in length. As regards to fittings give me fugi rings every time. Poor quality snakes wear out lines quicker than concrete dams. I always matt finish my rods. The flash from glossy rods scares fish.

PILE CAST (/PUDDLE)

The Puddle Cast on the other hand, which is a far less extreme version of the Pile Cast is a very useful cast. It follows a similar principle and as you can see from the video by combining it with a Side Cast the slack can be carefully controlled. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. MEASURING SWINGWEIGHT We use the term swingweight to mean the moment of inertia of a single handed fly-rod around an axis at the butt of the rod. This standardizes usage and distinguishes swingweight from the moment of inertia around any other axis { particularly around the center of mass. Moment of inertia (MOI) is resistance of an object to rotational

acceleration.

MANIOTOTO FISHING

Variety is the spice of trout fishing. February 11th, 2015 Ronan Creane. I think the reason I can immerse myself so completely in NZ trout fishing is in it’s diversity. The diversity lies in the location, the method used to catch the trout and the trout itself. Within an hour or so of SEXYLOOPSFPHTOCREVIEWSCONTENTSSHOPVIDEO Mayfly on the Dee Sunday, 6 June 2021. Last weekend’s BFCC meeting went well with lots of happy casters attending. Things were helped by the fantastic weather, hot enough to dispense with the fleeces and cast in a T-shirt, plus a bit of wind to make the competition casters

smile.

SEXYLOOPS FLYCASTING CONTENTS The Manual: Introduction to the Flycasting Manual Stroke analysis: The introduction to the Dirty Harry Series. Overhead Cast - Basics. Basics: Basic principles behind flycasting and the overhead cast Español STOP!: The "STOP" Directions: Changing direction Español Flex: Rod flex and the stop – includes video and animated gif Less Power!: Minimum power in flycasting - includes videos THE GRIP – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS In the USA and UK most instructors start out by teaching this thumb-on-top grip. In Continental Europe it is more common to begin with a finger pointing grip. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. FLY REEL DRAGS AND STUFF The Draw Bar Disc Drag Perhaps the most common drag in modern reels is the draw bar disc drag. In this system two or more circular discs are compressed against each other, and at least one of the discs can rotate only one direction. AFTM TABLE - SEXYLOOPS AFTMA stands for the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association. Just in case you were wondering. The AFTM is a scale of line weights. The heavier the line, the greater the AFTM number. The manufacturers weigh the first 10 yards excluding the level tip

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

RODS FOR STILLWATERS My personal choice for stillwater is a fast progressive actioned rod, of nine to nine and a half feet in length. As regards to fittings give me fugi rings every time. Poor quality snakes wear out lines quicker than concrete dams. I always matt finish my rods. The flash from glossy rods scares fish.

PILE CAST (/PUDDLE)

The Puddle Cast on the other hand, which is a far less extreme version of the Pile Cast is a very useful cast. It follows a similar principle and as you can see from the video by combining it with a Side Cast the slack can be carefully controlled. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. MEASURING SWINGWEIGHT We use the term swingweight to mean the moment of inertia of a single handed fly-rod around an axis at the butt of the rod. This standardizes usage and distinguishes swingweight from the moment of inertia around any other axis { particularly around the center of mass. Moment of inertia (MOI) is resistance of an object to rotational

acceleration.

MANIOTOTO FISHING

Variety is the spice of trout fishing. February 11th, 2015 Ronan Creane. I think the reason I can immerse myself so completely in NZ trout fishing is in it’s diversity. The diversity lies in the location, the method used to catch the trout and the trout itself. Within an hour or so of SEXYLOOPS - LOCKDOWN LIVING My fishing is once again imaginary, and I don’t mean that I’m fishing Imaginary Saltwater, no instead I am wondering when – or even if – life will ever become “normal” again. One and a half years of “movement control orders” and lockdowns and the virus is now worse than ever. New infections in Malaysia are surging and more per capita than even India. No end in sight over here

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Your fly rod also needs to be reliable. Prototype HTs are taken to fishing shows, put through literally hundreds of angler's hands, of all abilities, prototype rods are cast in Sexyloops distance competitions and of course they are all used to catch loads of fish - all prior to final production. Some flaws only appear after extensive

testing.

SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Bob Wyatt wrings out the Royal Wulff Triangle Taper Floating Line. When I strung this line through the rings of my trusty Abel 905 and gave it few tentative throws, I have to say I wasn't all that impressed. I had just been testing a weight forward line (see my SA Ultra 4 review) and the difference was

significant.

SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Scientific Anglers XXD. There won't be a Sexyloops' regular who hasn't heard of the XXD. Almost all the distance casters on the board, including the “Big Hitters”, use this line for practice. Of course there's a very good reason for that; the 5-weight distance competition in the US is held using the XXD –

it's

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Vosseler DC3. So for the last twenty years I've been a Rimfly-man. In that time I've broken one (the reel seat fell off) and completely knackered two. The only means of lubrication has been spitting on the spindle from time to time – or dunking it in the water. Not the obvious candidate for a reel manufacturer, you

PARACHUTE CAST

So what we do is perform an overhead cast with a short line but instead of following through after the forward stop, we keep the rod in the stopped position and the line straightens and gently 'parachutes' to the water, leaving some 5 yrds of line in the air between the rod tip and the water. A couple of points: we can take more line out of the THE RISE - SEXYLOOPS The Rise. When trout are feeding near the surface they displace water with their movements. The way in which the water moves tell us about what has just happened. With experience, a rise can tell us some, if not all, of the following: What food item the fish has just taken. SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. There is no doubt that Sage are one of the world leaders in flyrod technology. I initially chased the hell out of Sage for a number of different reasons. The XP 590 was one of those reasons. A friend once gave me four words: “Because I deserve it”. There's a lot of power in those words and I still haven't fully

GRIPS AND HOLDS

The rod grip is the conduit through which the angler transmits his tactile commands to his tackle. Its size is critical for it should weld the rod to the hand so that the rod becomes an uninterrupted extension of the casters arm. Any misfit or discomfort will in some way lessen the control the SEXYLOOPSFPHTOCREVIEWSCONTENTSSHOPVIDEO The great thing about teaching is that you are constantly learning. If you really want to understand what it is that you do, then try teaching it. You have to dissect your movements, often into the tiniest details, explain how to make them and in a way that your student can understand/duplicate. This in turn gives you insight into

where you

FLY REEL DRAGS AND STUFF The Draw Bar Disc Drag Perhaps the most common drag in modern reels is the draw bar disc drag. In this system two or more circular discs are compressed against each other, and at least one of the discs can rotate only one direction.

SEXYLOOPS

Your fly rod also needs to be reliable. Prototype HTs are taken to fishing shows, put through literally hundreds of angler's hands, of all abilities, prototype rods are cast in Sexyloops distance competitions and of course they are all used to catch loads of fish - all prior to final production. Some flaws only appear after extensive

testing.

THE GRIP – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS In the USA and UK most instructors start out by teaching this thumb-on-top grip. In Continental Europe it is more common to begin with a finger pointing grip. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. SEXYLOOPS FLYCASTING CONTENTS The Manual: Introduction to the Flycasting Manual Stroke analysis: The introduction to the Dirty Harry Series. Overhead Cast - Basics. Basics: Basic principles behind flycasting and the overhead cast Español STOP!: The "STOP" Directions: Changing direction Español Flex: Rod flex and the stop – includes video and animated gif Less Power!: Minimum power in flycasting - includes videos SNAP T 90 – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. Now there is a far more advanced version of this cast, which is to fully aerialise the Snap. This removes the need to lift the line from the water the second time, and all of that movement can be done while the line is in the air. In actual fact every single Spey Cast can be fully aerielised. SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Bob Wyatt wrings out the Royal Wulff Triangle Taper Floating Line. When I strung this line through the rings of my trusty Abel 905 and gave it few tentative throws, I have to say I wasn't all that impressed. I had just been testing a weight forward line (see my SA Ultra 4 review) and the difference was

significant.

SPEY CASTS - SEXYLOOPS Spey casting outline. Put quite simply:- a spey cast is a roll cast preceded by a bit of line repositioning. There is nothing more frightening to it than this. There are many alternatives to the traditional single and double spey casts. Most of which I cover here,

although it

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

MEASURING SWINGWEIGHT We use the term swingweight to mean the moment of inertia of a single handed fly-rod around an axis at the butt of the rod. This standardizes usage and distinguishes swingweight from the moment of inertia around any other axis { particularly around the center of mass. Moment of inertia (MOI) is resistance of an object to rotational

acceleration.

SEXYLOOPSFPHTOCREVIEWSCONTENTSSHOPVIDEO The great thing about teaching is that you are constantly learning. If you really want to understand what it is that you do, then try teaching it. You have to dissect your movements, often into the tiniest details, explain how to make them and in a way that your student can understand/duplicate. This in turn gives you insight into

where you

FLY REEL DRAGS AND STUFF The Draw Bar Disc Drag Perhaps the most common drag in modern reels is the draw bar disc drag. In this system two or more circular discs are compressed against each other, and at least one of the discs can rotate only one direction.

SEXYLOOPS

Your fly rod also needs to be reliable. Prototype HTs are taken to fishing shows, put through literally hundreds of angler's hands, of all abilities, prototype rods are cast in Sexyloops distance competitions and of course they are all used to catch loads of fish - all prior to final production. Some flaws only appear after extensive

testing.

THE GRIP – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS In the USA and UK most instructors start out by teaching this thumb-on-top grip. In Continental Europe it is more common to begin with a finger pointing grip. It’s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. SEXYLOOPS FLYCASTING CONTENTS The Manual: Introduction to the Flycasting Manual Stroke analysis: The introduction to the Dirty Harry Series. Overhead Cast - Basics. Basics: Basic principles behind flycasting and the overhead cast Español STOP!: The "STOP" Directions: Changing direction Español Flex: Rod flex and the stop – includes video and animated gif Less Power!: Minimum power in flycasting - includes videos SNAP T 90 – FLY CASTING VIDEO MASTERCLASS Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. Now there is a far more advanced version of this cast, which is to fully aerialise the Snap. This removes the need to lift the line from the water the second time, and all of that movement can be done while the line is in the air. In actual fact every single Spey Cast can be fully aerielised. SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Bob Wyatt wrings out the Royal Wulff Triangle Taper Floating Line. When I strung this line through the rings of my trusty Abel 905 and gave it few tentative throws, I have to say I wasn't all that impressed. I had just been testing a weight forward line (see my SA Ultra 4 review) and the difference was

significant.

SPEY CASTS - SEXYLOOPS Spey casting outline. Put quite simply:- a spey cast is a roll cast preceded by a bit of line repositioning. There is nothing more frightening to it than this. There are many alternatives to the traditional single and double spey casts. Most of which I cover here,

although it

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

MEASURING SWINGWEIGHT We use the term swingweight to mean the moment of inertia of a single handed fly-rod around an axis at the butt of the rod. This standardizes usage and distinguishes swingweight from the moment of inertia around any other axis { particularly around the center of mass. Moment of inertia (MOI) is resistance of an object to rotational

acceleration.

SEXYLOOPS

The great thing about teaching is that you are constantly learning. If you really want to understand what it is that you do, then try teaching it. You have to dissect your movements, often into the tiniest details, explain how to make them and in a way that your student can understand/duplicate. This in turn gives you insight into

where you

CHECKING THE SHOOT

The original video manual was shot some ten years ago. So it’s certainly time to add some new content. Up to the “outro” video the class was highly structured.

SEXYLOOPS

The great thing about teaching is that you are constantly learning. If you really want to understand what it is that you do, then try teaching it. You have to dissect your movements, often into the tiniest details, explain how to make them and in a way that your student can understand/duplicate. This in turn gives you insight into

where you

INTRODUCTION

Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden. What you will find, maybe, is the uncanny ability to control the line, roll it into a loop, and send the fly – and line – to precisely where you intended. Forming a controlled loop is really what good flycasting is

all about –

COMPETITION DISTANCE CAST Competition Distance Cast. This is a competition distance style commonly referred to as the 170 or Stopless Cast. It’s not just a competition cast, elements of it appear in my Snakehead cast and in fact throughout my casting. The forward grip is excellent for Dynamic Roll deliveries. The stopless cast with a lower trajectory is an

excellent

SHOOTING HEADS

The best way to fully understand shooting heads is to make some. In order to make your shooting head out of a DT line, find yourself in a field with it and start casting. Play around with false casting the different lengths of line in the air. The rod should feel responsive

in your hands.

AFTM TABLE - SEXYLOOPS AFTMA stands for the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association. Just in case you were wondering. The AFTM is a scale of line weights. The heavier the line, the greater the AFTM number. The manufacturers weigh the first 10 yards excluding the level tip and rate the line according to the table. AFTM Table. SEXYLOOPS' TACKLE REVIEW SECTION Sexyloops' Tackle Reviews. Sage TCR 590-4. The TCR5 is a pretty controversial rod, marketed as being only for the expert casters and we've frequently argued about it on the Board. And every time we do so people start talking about CCS and ERN (a subject only three people in SEXYLOOPS - MAYFLY ON THE DEE Last weekend’s BFCC meeting went well with lots of happy casters attending. Things were helped by the fantastic weather, hot enough to dispense with the fleeces and cast in a T-shirt, plus a bit of wind to make the competition casters smile. Mark, Mike H and Mike M provided instruction all day and they had plenty of satisfied customers judging by the comments received during the day and on

PARACHUTE CAST

So what we do is perform an overhead cast with a short line but instead of following through after the forward stop, we keep the rod in the stopped position and the line straightens and gently 'parachutes' to the water, leaving some 5 yrds of line in the air between the rod tip and the water. A couple of points: we can take more line out of the

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IT’S ALL ABOUT TO... MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2020 James’ FP yesterday struck a real chord with me. It’s the same for me on the lake here. I have “The Squiggles”, Ant Island, Millipede Island, Snake Island, Elephant Island, Spooky Island, Snakehead City, Gourami Bay, Millipede Island (AKA Martyn’s Inferno, due to a rather large campfire) and so on. Which reminds me of a joke I attribute to my Grandfather (which may be incorrect by the way)...

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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, ETC. TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2020 So, the good news is I finally got out and went fishing. It was not in my canoes but in a friends boat, and that was probably just as good as the waters were pretty tore up from the recent storms. I doubt I could have gone anywhere interesting in a canoe and this trip did allow me a very thorough investigation of the situation. One of the most interesting observations was the number of other anglers on the water. Apparently, there were a large number of folks who were just as bummed out by our recent forced vacation from fishing. Everyone seemed happy just to get back out on the water.

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TESTING FLIES FOR PERCH, PIKE AND ZANDER WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2020 All week long I was testing some new flies for Perch, Pike and Zander. Yet only the fish can tell me, if my flies work or not!

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LESSONS LEARNED REVISITED THURSDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2020 As we have done for the past several years, my family and I are spending the Thanksgiving holiday on the Texas coast in a tiny town called Indianola. Unfortunately I did not realize that there is no Wi-Fi or internet connectivity at the remote cabin where we are staying....which is just how I like it actually. I ran in to Port Lavaca to put up a Front Page, and in the interest of time, decided to re-run one of Paul's favorites titled 'lessons Learned" from June of 2019. One of our favorite past times down here is the pursuit of LARGE Black Drum with heavy tackle and natural bait i deep water. This essay details the brutal learning curve we went through one hot summer day learning to chase the giants of the deep, and in the process, created some indelible, albeit hilarious memories. Hope all of you are staying safe and healthy, and to those of you stateside, hope that you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

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EXPLANATION AND ARSE EYE FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2020 Last week Mike was asking from Paul some things in FP. I started to think about the same issue and thought to share my opinion. Opinion is like arse eye, everyone has his own but from opinion you could get something useful, otherwise than from arse. (ass has two meanings, does that tell something about arse or animal).

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SATURDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2020 Long flies - in this case sand eel imitations and imitations of other bait fish for that matter, often equal long wings to imitate the long profile of the bait fish. And the imitations can be very precise and very effective and I for one fish them alot. Sand eels, gobies, sticklebacks, small herring, sprats and more are on the big salt water menu around all of Scandinavia (though not all at once).

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SUNDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2020 When we’re flats fishing Tracy and I tend to make up names for things that makes perfect sense to us but, to someone overhearing us, might sound odd. Quite often we change the name of flats to something more meaningful to us rather than the ‘official’ moniker. This isn’t done for any sort of subterfuge reasons, it’s just because I’m not great at remembering names and, as such, if we come up with a more logical name then we both know instantly where we are discussing. For example, ‘Muddy Bay’ – it’s pretty obvious why we call this particular flat this, as fighting through calf-deep soft silt is pretty memorable (and strength sapping – but often worth it). There’s also ‘Church Flat’ named after the church roof that is our navigation aid to find it – this one requires a couple of miles walk through a fairly featureless terrain and looking back at the distinctive red tiles helps keep us on the right track to hit the exact entry point that we want.

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