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Season Greetings and
Welcome to Flyshop's December Newsletter.
In this issue;
The season to date
Salmon: Looking good!!
Fly Specials
Casting tip:
Intro to the Double Haul
Forum
Featured product: Spotters Sunnies
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Low rivers have been the feature this spring over
much of the South Island, great for sight fishing in the larger snow fed
rivers which are normally cloudy with glacial silt. The settled winter
has meant that the fish are in good condition, many being very nice and fat.
With the lack of winter rain and snow, rivers and
lakes through out are low....lower than I've ever seen them,
fingers crossed that we get enough rain through summer to maintain flows
and keep them alive.
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Salmon
Good news on the Salmon front with reports of fish
being caught in the lower Rakaia up as high as SH 1 road bridge with one
taken just below the Gorge Bridges so it's looking like we might have a
decent salmon season this year!! |
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Fly Specials |
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Special
Black Gnats by the Dozen = $12
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Special - Tungsten
Hares Ear Hairy
$2.00 |
Special -
Tungsten
Hare & Copper Hairy
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I've also added some more better quality
Tungsten Nymphs |
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Casting Tip
Intro to the Double Haul.
Once the basic cast is mastered,
adding a double haul to your repertoire will add to your ability to cast
in windy conditions and to gain extra distance. The Double Haul can really
turbo charge your cast and allows you to send mini Exocet missiles zinging
across the water...
The Double Haul basically increases your line speed through the air,
without the need of increasing the rod speed further.
In fact the Double Haul once
perfected will change the shape of your loops, making them much more
aerodynamic, a tighter U or V shape can be achieved.
Initially as you learn the Double
Haul, you just need to focus on the action with your line hand, get
familiar with it before you worry about too much more. Once you have
it working for you basically then you can start to work on refining the
timing.
So lay out some line on the water. Start with your line hand up close beside
your rod hand. As you pick up the line to start your cast, pull down with
your line hand. (That's the first haul, easy enough) As the line fires
back behind you, let your line hand drift back up to be beside the rod
hand again. The line between hand and rod should stay tight as your hand
travels back up. (Your line needs to be clean and slick for this to work well, some
‘turbo
shoot’ is the solution and will have the line sliding through the guides
sweetly).
As you start your forward stroke, pull down on your
line hand again, then have your hand drift back up to your rod hand
again...And that's a basic Double Haul. Get comfortable with that and the
new actions, then you'll be able to work on refining the timing to gain
even more from performance....but more about that in a later newsletter
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Forum
The New
Zealand Fly Fishing Forum has a total of 388 posts (290 replies to 98
Topics) Come and have a read if you haven't visited for a while, we'd
love to hear from you... |
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