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Walter & Group...
[GH] Here are my answers to Tim's Quotes. ( I couldn't answer all of them ). Then I provided the answers I found for the ones I added :-
Gary started it, so how about a "Quotes Quiz"?
"Share your knowledge, don't display it" Lefty Kreh
"You will not be lucky" Don't know
"The double haul just helps you throw your mistakes farther"
[GH] (Also: "Some people use their hauls to throw their mistakes farther" Lefty Kreh
"When I run out of arm" Gary Borger On Lefty's "wind cast"...Jason's, "thrust cast". (PRESENTATION).
"I don't care what you call it, just do it" Tom White
"It's only fly casting" Don't know. (Scott Swartz was close with his "mantra".)
"Standing on your line does nothing to improve the cast" One of my favorite, "truths".
"Nothing good happens when you false cast with a weighted fly" Lefty
"Life's too short" Don't know. **
"You can't expect skinny line to turn over fat line" Tom White
Tim
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[GH] I'll add a few others :
" It's a single haul unless you give back line" Joan Wulff (Verbal from her classes.)
"A double haul can be done on either the back or forward cast but is normally done on both." Joan Wulff (FLY CASTING TECHNIQUES)
"The measured chord that subtends the arc of the fully bent rod becomes the true casting or effective length." Vincent Marinaro ("IN THE RING OF THE RISE"). (Don Phillips quotes Marinaro in his "TECHNOLOGY OF FLY RODS")
" Cackhanded. casting with the right hand up over the left shoulder (or vice versa)" Simon Gawesworth (Spey Casting)
"Any knot begins to slip just before it breaks." Lefty Kreh (Fishing Knots).
"Stop the back cast abruptly when your arm is vertical and the rod is 22 1/2 degrees back of the vertical position." Frank R.Steel (Fly Fishing, 1946) (This became taught as, "Steel's angle").
"The essence of learning is doing. The essence of teaching is inspiration." Mel Krieger.
"Pushing the hand straight ahead when you stop the rod will cause the rod tip to do the same. This is the cause of all tailing loops." Ed Jaworowski (THE CAST).
" The term enlightenment casts has little to do with the Buddhists' sense of the word." Mac Brown (CASTING ANGLES).
" If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church." Tom Brokaw *
"You cannot drift against a back wind" Joan Wulff (Verbal instruction)
"Use the haul like a gear shift to change line speed....." Lefty Kreh
"Fly-fishing may well be considered the most beautiful of all rural sports." Frank Forester *
"For all men are equal before fish." Herbert Hoover *
"Sometimes a poorly designed knot that is firmly closed is stronger than a well designed knot that is not firmly closed" Lefty Kreh (FISHING KNOTS).
"A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it." Arnold Gingrich *
"To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy." Norman MacLean ( A River Runs Through It). *
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau. *
"Don't use any more power than you did on your last false cast. Haul faster. Let your haul hand be your accelerator." Lefty Kreh (Verbal instruction).
"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?" Isaac Walton *
"Now try to make the same distance cast with half the effort." Ed Jaworowski (Verbal instruction)
"Game fish are too valuable to be caught once." Lee Wulff (The Atlantic Salmon)
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted time those hours spent fishing" Herbert Hoover. (One reference said that it was in similar form derived from an ancient Babylonian proverb.) *
Perhaps Tim will send the answers to the ones I missed.
Gordy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life's_Too_Short
Life's Too Short is an observational sitcom series, created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, from an idea by Warwick Davis.
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