Line choice for beginner

Mike Connor wrote:

Short range is up to sixty feet

RW replied
Short range is up to 60 feet? Whoa!

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What part of "up to" did you fail to understand?

Sixty feet is a long cast on most rivers, but it is a short cast on a lake,
or in the ocean. All these things are relative. Sixty feet ( or
thereabouts)was also the distance suggested by the original advocate of WF
lines.

When using some special gear, I can cast my fly up to 450 feet, or even
more. I don´t suppose you will believe that either? Not that it worries me
unduly.

Generally speaking, and in the circumstances I often fish under, 60 feet is
not only short range, it is laughable.

To be fair, and considering normal flyfishing on a river, I would usually
consider up to thirty feet "short range", up to sixty feet "medium range",
and beyond that, say up to a hundred feet or more, "long range".

Just for the sake of interest, here are some current fly-casting records;

CURRENT FLY CASTING DISTANCE RECORDS

BFCC 5 WEIGHT FLY FISHERMAN'S DISTANCE

112 feet held by Jon Allen 25/10/03.



BFCC 7 WEIGHT FLY FISHERMAN'S DISTANCE

116.58 feet held by Pete Sutton 25/10/03.



BFCC 8 WEIGHT FLY FISHERMAN'S DISTANCE

124.48 feet held by Pete Sutton 07/09/03.



SINGLE-HANDED FLY DISTANCE

238.7 feet British (BCA) Record held by Hywel Morgan (platform cast)

248 feet ICSF World Record held by Steve Rajeff (USA) (platform cast)

236 feet ACA American Record held by Steve Rajeff (cast off ground)



DOUBLE-HANDED FLY DISTANCE

299.2 feet British (BCA) Record held by Hwyel Morgan (platform cast)

320.9 feet ICSF World Record held by Thomas Maire (Germany) (platform cast)

290 feet ACA American Record held by Steve Rajeff (cast off ground)



ANGLER'S FLY DISTANCE

OPEN No previous British BCA or current BFCC record

No ICSF record as this is not an ICSF event

190 feet ACA American Record held jointly by Steve Rajeff & Rene Gillibert
(cast off ground)

Presumably you are going to tell us they all cheated? I wonder what they
would think 60 feet is? Long range? No, I think not.

You can find more info on this here;
http://uksf.sea-angler.org/bfcc/bfccrecords.html

TL
MC