mending line
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mending line
how do you chaps do it when fishing across stream into a slack? i try to flick a D in the line (similar to when fly casting) during the cast and also mid trot, however it is tricky to get it to to work well without messing up the flow of the float. any tips??
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Re: mending line
I lift the rod tip. like into a roll cast and flick it back over the faster water.
After a while you'll get good at it and you'll flick it without moving the fly.![Thumbs Up :Thumb:](./images/smilies/icon_thumpb.gif)
After a while you'll get good at it and you'll flick it without moving the fly.
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Re: mending line
i can do it when fly fishing fine, it's when casting a float to about 30 yards i'm wondering about!!!
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Re: mending line
Use a really, really heavy float that you can lean against, fish with an upstream wind or use a waggler.
or a feeder![Cool :Cool:](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
or a feeder
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Re: mending line
notDave Burr wrote:..........
or a feeder..
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Re: mending line
All you can do is reel as the float goes down stream, I hooked that Grayling at thirty yards a couple of days ago, I was using the mitchell 300 with the bail open, all you can do is keep in touch with the float as much as possible, without changing it's direction.
Like fly fishing flick the slack over the faster water, release line as you need it and if too much reel the slack in and take the bail off again.
I've perfected this method over the years since not owning a centre pin. Centre pins are next on my list as I haven't used them yet.
Like fly fishing flick the slack over the faster water, release line as you need it and if too much reel the slack in and take the bail off again.
I've perfected this method over the years since not owning a centre pin. Centre pins are next on my list as I haven't used them yet.
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Re: mending line
Oiling the line with floatant makes it a lot easier. And of course a heavy float is harder to shift during a mend.
Re: mending line
Hi Bluedun,Bluedun wrote:Oiling the line with floatant makes it a lot easier. And of course a heavy float is harder to shift during a mend.
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...... or use a good quality floating line such as Drennan Supplex.....
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Re: mending line
drennan supplex ey? give that a go in june then. had bad experience with floating line in the past, but that was the ultima stuff. nice one chaps.
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Re: mending line
i'm using around 5-6 bb floats with the centrepin. i'll give oiling the line a whistle.Bluedun wrote:Oiling the line with floatant makes it a lot easier. And of course a heavy float is harder to shift during a mend.
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