"Giles" wrote in message
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I've been recommending this for years. A four foot, quarter inch
dowel with six feet (to start) of yarn tied to the tip is an
exceptional teaching tool.

Dowels are too rigid: a rod tip section is much better
(and less likely to break during indoor use.) The right
thickness/weight/diameter of the yarn can be found only
by trial and error but this is worth the effort. If you have
enough space for the backcast, you can cast acccurately
to at 15 ft. with yarn and the timing seems proportionate to
fly tackle on the water. IIRR Lee Wulff has written on this
topic.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)