fruity
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Post by fruity on Oct 23, 2007 9:54:53 GMT
One of a number of books on threadline fishing, “threadline” defined as using lines with the thickness of sewing thread, produced between the 1930’s and 1950’s. The chapters cover the tackle, use of tackle, methods and tactics, casting, studying the current, also how to make a “controller”. The book goes into exacting detail of methods and tactics, and while the author covers weighted flies and weighted lines (not the same weighted lines as Graham Clarke of Glanrhos) in other books, this centres around what today we would see as a light spinning outfit with the methods of depth/control via the use of a cigar shaped depth controller or “depth changeable float”.
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Post by fruity on Oct 23, 2007 9:56:03 GMT
I do recall at least one other author writing a book on fly fishing with a spinning rod but can’t place the name or book and don’t think it was particularly informative, Mr Wanless’s books on the subject are better...though now dated because the tackle has changed and methods developed so much. Hardys even designed some rods to balance the lines and methods and it became popular though I think the realities of salmon fishing meant the method tended to be used with standard shrimp or spinning rods and normal strength nylon spinning line with spinning reel.
Today most people use spinning rods though some people use fly rods, and the modern Mac Martin series of “softer/fly type” spinning rods are popular for this. I prefer a 12ft rod in order to control line but will happily use a slightly shorter rod if restricted by space or already using a spinning rod. The surface method is used with modified chub or stick floats, bubble floats, or hollow tubes as a controller, with the underwater method used with “modern controller weights”, bouncing betties, or ordinary lead weights attached to a swivel. The fly usually being a weightless tube fly, of which the best used to be a GP but I am not surprised to learn the best fly is now a PBP!
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