jeff typed:
Tom Nakashima wrote:

"jeff" wrote in message
end rod/reel packages. Think watch spring with no slickness.

Jeff, the backing should be attached to the reel first, *then* the fly
line (just in case you didn't know.) ;-)
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Indian Joe offers--took my new 6 wt Calabras outfit to New Zealand. After
a few days of slight success I decided to hire a guide for a lesson. He
said --"Lets see your rig- cast twice --took off the line that came with
package- threw it in a pile of trash in the back of his truck--and we
rerigged with another line and went fishing.

Couple of hours later the guide says-"there he is just across river under
that tree" I could just see tree so remembering all my lessons from that
swedish guy at Penns I false cast twice and laid it out there--the guide
says " put it about three feet upstream and let it drift down to him "----I
had just made the premier cast of my life and he ask for improvement !!! We
lost the big brown { size of a salmon } as he broke off when line got
around guides leg while netting was ill performed. Or fisherman had failed
to get line on reel rather than floating it around!