Answers to 10 questions

Walter & Group...

If you are interested or experienced in teaching fly casting / fly fishing to handicapped folks.. including wounded service men and women, please let me know. (I already know of al Crise's interest and efforts , as well as those of Peter Minnick and Bill Toone.)

Gordy

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Below, you will fine three of the best sets of answers to the 10 questions.  (Many more, but space doesn't allow for me to include them ) :-

Michael Gallert's answers. (My answers will follow the last list of answers...from Randy Olsen) :-

Michael & Group...

Let's see what answers we get to a few, "simple" questions:

(Helps test your general and reading knowledge)

1.)  What is a, "good" cast ?

Any cast that gets the pattern to the target, without a tangle or knot in the line or leader

2.)  Define a MEND.

Movement of the rod after the stop, on the presentation cast, that allow a desired presentation.

3.)  What is meant by the word, "layout" ?

???

4.)  What is a TIDAL BORE ?

Tide water flooding a river. Usually extreme. The water comes as a wave and moves in-land rapidly. I have seen folks wait on a muddy river bed in tubes waiting to ride the wave, Canadians- go figure!?!?

5.)  Can you list the advantages and disadvantages of using an all fluorocarbon leader ?

Disadvantages: Expensive, retains memory. Advantages: abrasion resistant, lower visibility than mono, denser than water. sinks better. greater strength per diameter, stretches less, and is less susceptible to damage from sun and chemicals

6.)  What is a, "blow line" ?

 Used primarily when "Dapping". Made from several strands of floss, not woven, but gathered. The floss is placed between the tippet and the flyline or running line. The floss opens up on the wind and allows the dry fly to remain motionless on the surface. I have a spool, got it in Scotland after a day of dapping on Loch Maree with an old school Ghillie Jim Hunter

7.)  Most instructors and authors use the terms, "upper leg" and "lower leg" to describe the limbs of a fly line loop.  One well known author used the terms, "end line" and "main line" to describe them.  Who was this ?

 My guess is Jim Green, inform me who taught this.

8.)  Can you come up with yet another way of describing the legs of the fly line loop ?

The top leg connected to the fly, The Fly Leg. The bottom leg connected to the rod, The Rod Leg

9.)  What author wrote about using a HOCK BOTTLE  as a weight for casting arm exercises ?

Charles Ritz "A Fly Fishers Life"

10.)  Joan Wulff uses the analogy of a SEE SAW while discussing distance casting.  What was she talking about ?

I am not familiar with Joan's See Saw analogy. 

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Jim Laing's answers to 10 questions.  (My answers appear in the text of Randy Olsen's answer at the end)

Laing & Group...

Let's see what answers we get to a few, "simple" questions:

(Helps test your general and reading knowledge)

1.)  What is a, "good" cast ? Placement of the fly in its desired location with complete control of the flyline while in the air and on the water.

2.)  Define a MEND Changing position of the flyline after the cast has been made.

3.)  What is meant by the word, "layout" ? The minds diagram of the placement of the flyline before the cast is made.

4.)  What is a TIDAL BORE ?  A saltwater fisher that always talks about the one that got away.....

5.)  Can you list the advantages and disadvantages of using an all fluorocarbon leader ? Adv - Higher density, less visible, more abrasion resistant, UV resistant, better knot strength when wet. Dis Adv - more $, not as strong, harder to tie knots with and only available in level filaments.  (tapered leaders must be tied)

6.)  What is a, "blow line" ? A very light line made of floss silk used with a long rod allows the wind to deliver the light fly a very good distance.  The practice has become obsolete, and first practiced in Europe - primarily Scotland and England.

7.)  Most instructors and authors use the terms, "upper leg" and "lower leg" to describe the limbs of a fly line loop.  One well known author used the terms, "end line" and "main line" to describe them.  Who was this ?  Mac Brown

8.)  Can you come up with yet another way of describing the legs of the fly line loop ?  Fly leg / Rod leg

9.)  What author wrote about using a HOCK BOTTLE  as a weight for casting arm exercises ?  Charles Ritz

10.)  Joan Wulff uses the analogy of a SEE SAW while discussing distance casting.  What was she talking about ? Trajectory / 180 deg Spectrum

 

Very good answers.  #4, while tongue in cheek, is not so far off, I suppose.  On # 3, I'd say that it is the actual position or, "diagram" of the fly line and leader after landing.  See detailed answers, below.

Gordy

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Answers to 10 questions from Randy Olsen (My comments in bold italics in his text : -

Randy & Group...

Let's see what answers we get to a few, "simple" questions:

(Helps test your general and reading knowledge)

1.)  What is a, "good" cast ? A cast that exhibits efficiency (little wasted motion)and accuracy.

Good answer.  One might also consider that a, "good" cast is one which the presentation meets the objectives of the caster/angler.  I do, however, like your addition of efficiency.

2.)  Define a MEND A repositioning of the line after the stop  

yes, indeed.  

3.)  What is meant by the word, "layout" ?  Where the line comes to rest at the completion of a cast

True.  Also, the shape of the line and leader where it falls to the water.

4.)  What is a TIDAL BORE ? a wave that travels upstream or into a creek or bay caused by a rising tide

Yes.  Described in Chapman's, SEAMANSHIP AND SMALL BOAT HANDLING.  Also,(with an impressive set of pictures), James McCully's, BEYOND THE MOON pp. 154-156.

McCully's book is the best I've ever read on tides.

5.)  Can you list the advantages and disadvantages of using an all fluorocarbon leader ?   Advantages include: Sinks better, less visible, more abrasion resistant, knots cinch down easier

 

Disadvantages: Doesn't float as well, breaks easier in cold weather, more expensive, doesn't break down from exposure to sunlight, therefore bad for the environment

 

Agree.  Used to be that most fluorocarbon was stiffer than soft monofilaments ... but now, both products can be bought as either stiff or pliable material.

 

One other disadvantage that many knots used for leader section connections are not as strong or as reliable when tied in fluorocarbon.  The ones which are more reliable, are bulkier than the blood knots which work well for the sections of the tapered portion of a monofilament nylon leader.  That makes them catch weeds easier.

 

Jake Jordan has done some sophisticated studies comparing the abrasion resistance of various brands of both.  He has found that the very best abrasion resistant leader material is a brand of stiff nylon mono.  Again, some brands of fluorocarbon are more abrasion resistant than others.

 

Most fluorocarbon leader materials have lower tensile strength / diameter than most nylon monofilament materials. (I personally tested many brands of both with Tom White's line testing device.)

 

Check out Lefty Kreh's, PRESENTING THE FLY, p. 45.  Also, the numerous references to nylon and fluorocarbon with respect to leaders and knots in, FLYCASTING SYSTEMS by Bill Nash (5th edition, 2006).

6.)  What is a, "blow line" ?  I assume you mean a cast in which the rod is held high so the wind can carry the line and fly over the water.

Well... that would function in much the same way.  Gary Borger has described the use of a "line" of untwisted polypropylene yarn about the length of the fly rod.  This has more bulk than most ordinary leaders to catch the wind, thus kiting the tippet and fly out over the water downwind.  (PRESENTATION, pp. 286-287)  Also, Jason Borger's, THE NATURE OF FLY CASTING, pp. 248-249.

7.)  Most instructors and authors use the terms, "upper leg" and "lower leg" to describe the limbs of a fly line loop.  One well known author used the terms, "end line" and "main line" to describe them.  Who was this ?   Mac Brown 

Yes. 

8.)  Can you come up with yet another way of describing the legs of the fly line loop ? Fly leg and Rod...is my preferred terminology

Yes.  This is my preferred way of describing the loop legs.

In one workshop, I heard them described as, "the active leg and the static leg."  This is OK only for casts where no line is shot or released, as I see it.

The time honored terms, "top leg and bottom leg" are OK .... until you cast with a horizontal rod plane.  Then they become an, "inner leg and an outer leg" with respect to the caster .... not cool.

9.)  What author wrote about using a HOCK BOTTLE  as a weight for casting arm exercises ?   Tom White

I never ran across that reference .... but I'll ask Tom when I talk with him, tomorrow.  It appears in, A FLY FISHERS LIFE by Charles Ritz, p. 35.

10.)  Joan Wulff uses the analogy of a SEE SAW while discussing distance casting.  What was she talking about ?  The plane of each cast (fore and back) resembling a see saw when viewed from the side.  When casting for distance you must change planes to account for line drop .

Yes.  The, "line plane" or trajectory.  (Not the rod plane.)  Check out Joan Wulff's FLY CASTING TECHNIQUES under Long Cast Trajectory, p. 121.

Gordy