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Walter & Group...
[GH] With many things in the flycasting World, there are several ways of getting the job done. Also true of pickup methods for various fishing/casting circumstances. Gary Davison has added a few more to my brief list of pickups and has related them to some of the tasks presented. These include the "Spiral pickup", "Snap T", and the "Snap Z".
Gordy
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>From Gary Davison:
Gordy
Here is my attempt on the questions shown using your guide below.
Gary
1.) As an instructor, you are demonstrating a PULD cast to a group of beginners.* Your demo cast is on the water at a distance of about 30 feet. Your pickup is about to follow.
Tackle: Medium action 9' 6 wt. rod. Line= DT6F. Leader = 7 1/2' tapered. Fly = hookless fluff or yarn.
* PULD = Pick up and lay down.
"Standard" pickup. (AKA, "Linear" Pickup, "Default" pickup.)
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2.) You have made a 45' presentation to a redfish (red drum) in water about 12 inches deep. The fish didn't take the fly, and left the scene. The bottom is muddy. The flat is grassy, and the fish are moving slowly about in the grass; sometimes laid up in dense grass with tops about 24 inches above the water.
Tackle: Fast action 9' 8 wt. rod. WF8F line, a 10' tapered leader, and a 2" weedless streamer tied on a #1 hook.
- Roll cast pickup.
Multiple roll pickup
Snap T or Z pick up or snap pick up
Wiggle" pickup.
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3.) While fishing for largemouth bass in a shallow lake, your fly was presented at about 35 feet to a disturbance in a small space between lilly pads. You didn't get a strike. The water is about 2 feet deep. The bass are beneath and between the dense growth of lilly pads.
Tackle: Fast action 8 1/2' 6 wt.rod. WF6F line. Short, fast taper 7 1/2' stiff leader with no taper. #1 weedless cork bass bug.
"C- pickup". or Spiral pick up
- Roll cast pickup.
- "Dancing line pickup"
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4.) Same situation as in 2.) HOWEVER, now you are using a 3" long weedless bass streamer with an epoxy head tied on a #1 hook.
- Roll cast pickup.
- Multiple roll pickup
Dancing line pickup"
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5.) Fishing left bank of a river with moderate flow for Atlantic salmon, you have made a single Spey cast. Your dead drift and swing yielded no strike. Now the fly is at the dangle and you are ready to make your pickup.
Tackle: 14' 8-9 designation traditional Spey rod. WF9F Spey line. 14' tapered leader. #2 single point salmon fly (Black rat design).
"Tension" pickup.
Change of direction pickup. (One author listed this as a "C.O.D." pickup.)
Lift & Set (Lift & Sweep) pickup
Snap T or Snap pick up
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6.) Striped bass are migrating slowly up an estuary against an outgoing tide. Most of them are following the outer edge of a sandbar about 35' - 40' out from you. They are moving along the bottom at about 6' to 8' depth. These are school fish averaging about 18" to 20".. The outgoing current is moderate.
You are wading on sand bottom. You have hooked a fish which made a short run, then became unhooked. Now you are ready to make another attempt.
Tackle: Rod = 9' 9wt. medium fast action salt water fly rod. Line: WF9ST. This line has a class IV 15' sink tip. Leader = 6" stiff 2 part: Butt section: 4' 40 lb. nylon monofilament. Tippet: 12 lb. fluorocarbon. Fly = 3" Clouser tied on a #1 hook, weighted with medium wt. (1/30th oz.) dumb bell tungsten eyes.
A combination of
- Multiple roll pickup+
with- "Tension" pickup. or Lift & Set (Lift & Sweep) pickup.
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7.) Fishing wary trout on a spring creek on a cloudless sky, your presentation to a rise near the opposite bank about 25' away failed to elicit a strike. Your dry fly has completed its drift and is "drowning". You are about to make the pickup for another presentation.
Rod = 9' 3 wt., medium slow action. Line = DT3F. Leader = 14' Harvey style. Tippet = 6x. Fly = # 18 dry fly.
"C- pickup". to dry the fly fast to make a new presentation with the least amount of false casting.
Roll cast pickup.
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8.) Tarpon fishing from a flats skiff. Your guide has positioned you for presentation to a pod of large tarpon which have formed a daisy chain. * You made your presentation to a large female fish in the center, but had a refusal. As the fly was retrieved past a male fish in the chain, you had a brief follow, then the fish turned slowly away and continued circling. You are on the foredeck about 55' from the edge of the circling fish and are in need of a pickup for a second try.
Tackle: Rod = 11 wt. 8 1/2" fast action salt water design. Line = WF11F, "Tarpon taper". Leader = 12' tarpon leader: 6' 60lb. nylon mono butt section, 2' 30 lb. nylon mono + 1" 20 lb. nylon mono tapered section, 2' class tippet 20 lb. Fluorocarbon, 1' 60 lb.Fluorocarbon shock tippet. Fly = Stu Apte design splayed hackle tarpon fly tied on an Owner Aki 2/0 hook.**
* "Daisy chain" = Adult tarpon demonstrating what is thought to be a pre-spawning ritual. Several males will circle about a larger female as they slowly move over a flat. In Florida and Bahamas waters, the movement is invariably slow in a counter-clockwise direction. Anglers sometimes try for the largest fish by presenting to the big female in the center. Others prefer to present to one of the circling males because of the much greater likelihood of a strike.
** OWNER AKI HOOK: A 2/0 short shank heavy wire black hook.
- "Speed pickup" (AKA, "Boat cast pickup" - "Speed cast pickup", "Quick cast pickup".) retrieving line with both hand to the desired length to make the Extended Linear pickup" (AKA, "Haul pickup")
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9.) Having just changed your fly while fishing stillwater on a small lake, you note that the line you left on the water has drifted toward you on an offshore breeze and lies on the water in loose coils. Now, you want to make a new cast to a trout spotted about 50' out on the water, but first you must pick up all the loose line out there in front of you efficiently and without undue delay.
Tackle: Rod = 9' 6 wt. medium fast action. Line: WF6F. Leader: 10' tapered with 4x tippet. Fly = #12 wet fly - 2" hair streamer.
Loose line pick up.
Lift & Set (Lift & Sweep) pickup.
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10.) You are performing Task 10 (accuracy) on the Master Performance exam and have made your first presentation to the 40' target. The fly hit the target perfectly. Now; you need to make a pick-up to present to the 30' target.
Extended Linear pickup" (AKA, "Haul pickup") pulling line through the rod hand to reducing line length
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Describe your preferred pickup method for each of these scenarios using plain descriptive language as well as a named pickup technique where appropriate. More than one method may work well.
Some fly fishers like to use pet labels for these and other elements of fly casting. The late Tom White used to say, "I don't care what you call it, just show me how you do it....".
Hint: Here is a brief list of some pick-up methods named and described in the fly casting literature. Other methods may never have been named, but bear description. Some of you may be able to teach us methods we didn't know about :-
- "Standard" pickup. (AKA, "Linear" Pickup, "Default" pickup.)
- "Extended Linear pickup" (AKA, "Haul pickup")
- Roll cast pickup.
- Multiple roll pickup
- "Dancing line pickup"
- "Wiggle" pickup.
- "C- pickup".
- Change of direction pickup. (One author listed this as a "C.O.D." pickup.)
- Lift & Set (Lift & Sweep) pickup.
- "Tension" pickup.
- "Speed pickup" (AKA, "Boat cast pickup" - "Speed cast pickup", "Quick cast pickup".)
Gordy
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