Thread: How much fly line?
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Old March 19th, 2007, 03:18 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Ken Fortenberry
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Default How much fly line?
wrote:
(Steve Thomas) wrote:
How many feet of flyline should be tied on to your backing?

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... Suffice it to say here, that the
shooting head for distance is irrevocably linked to the double haul,
which was first introduced to competition casting by Marvin Hedge at
the 1934 Nationals in St. Louis.
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Suffice ? Good grief, you blew right past "suffice" and wound up
on the far side of pedantic.

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Ken Fortenberry