"Russell D." wrote in message
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rw wrote:


The first no-no, which should be immediately obvious to anyone who has
flyfished more than once in his or her life, is that you should never
allow the flyline to wrap itself around the butt section of the rod.

I never *allow* my fly line to wrap around the butt section of my rod. It
just goes ahead and does it sometimes. All the scolding in the world does
not seem to help. ;-(


Ditto here. I hate it when it happens, but its inevitably on the last
forward motion of a cast, when I drop the last little piece of line and it
flips over the handle and loops over the reel, totally messing up the cast.
I pray a fish doesn't hit the fly exactly then, as I would not stand a
change of saving my tippet.

The only thing I hate worse than that is when the line flips over the
tiptpop in such a way that it makes it look like I somehow miraculously
unstrung the top guide, wrapped the line around the tip, then restrung it.

Hey, we're all human, some of us more so.

--riverman