Hi
I have been fly fishing for about a year now and have struggled to master 
casting. I recently had a casting lesson at Grafham and the instructor 
suggested that the line I was using is not loading the rod. I have a AFTM6/7 
9'6" GRXI rod and reel loaded with Airflo ultra supple line rated at 7. He 
suggests that I pt an AFTM8 line on to correctly load the rod. Now as I am 
currently out of work and have just purchased 5 new lines, all AFTM7 I don't 
really want to spend out on new lines only to find it isn't the problem. Is 
any one fishing with the same setup or has had a similar problem using this 
line with this rod?
Any advice would be gratefully received....

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LLAP.....James T

In article , Jim Tedder
<URL:mailto:jim.tedder@NO-SPAM.org.uk> wrote:

You mean underloading..?

> I have been fly fishing for about a year now and have struggled to master 
> casting. I recently had a casting lesson at Grafham and the instructor 
> suggested that the line I was using is not loading the rod. I have a AFTM6/7 
> 9'6" GRXI rod and reel loaded with Airflo ultra supple line rated at 7. He 

Probably two or three weights too low for a beginner.

> suggests that I pt an AFTM8 line on to correctly load the rod. Now as I am 
> currently out of work and have just purchased 5 new lines, all AFTM7 I don't 
> really want to spend out on new lines only to find it isn't the problem. Is

Alternatively get a 5 weight rod and try the new lines on that.
 
> any one fishing with the same setup or has had a similar problem using this 
> line with this rod?
> Any advice would be gratefully received.

Google for several series of posts here in the first part of 2002.  Mike Connor went through all this in detail.

Look at this thread:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.fishing.game/browse_thread/thread/48523b76fab8547e/af1b5b04d53fdb1a?hl=en&q=group:uk.rec.fishing.game+author:connor

and this one:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.fishing.game/browse_thread/thread/310ac3bb0a55a945/dd28ed0ab2759606?hl=en&q=group:uk.rec.fishing.game+author:connor

And generally review the group for that period.

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In message , Jim Tedder 
 writes
>Hi
>I have been fly fishing for about a year now and have struggled to 
>master casting. I recently had a casting lesson at Grafham and the 
>instructor suggested that the line I was using is not loading the rod. 
>I have a AFTM6/7 9'6" GRXI rod and reel loaded with Airflo ultra supple 
>line rated at 7. He suggests that I pt an AFTM8 line on to correctly 
>load the rod. Now as I am currently out of work and have just purchased 
>5 new lines, all AFTM7 I don't really want to spend out on new lines 
>only to find it isn't the problem. Is any one fishing with the same 
>setup or has had a similar problem using this line with this rod?
>Any advice would be gratefully received....
>

Going up one size of line will make like a lot easier.  You will feel 
that the line "wants" to go, and seeing as you are a novice fly-caster, 
I doubt very much if you will overload the road at this stage.

When you learn to double haul and go in for distance casting, THEN be 
careful, you could quite easily smash a rod.
-- 
Bill Grey

In message , Bill Grey 
 writes
>In message , Jim Tedder 
> writes
>>Hi
>>I have been fly fishing for about a year now and have struggled to 
>>master casting. I recently had a casting lesson at Grafham and the 
>>instructor suggested that the line I was using is not loading the rod. 
>>I have a AFTM6/7 9'6" GRXI rod and reel loaded with Airflo ultra 
>>supple line rated at 7. He suggests that I pt an AFTM8 line on to 
>>correctly load the rod. Now as I am currently out of work and have 
>>just purchased 5 new lines, all AFTM7 I don't really want to spend out 
>>on new lines only to find it isn't the problem. Is any one fishing 
>>with the same setup or has had a similar problem using this line with this rod?
>>Any advice would be gratefully received....
>>
>
>Going up one size of line will make like a lot easier.  You will feel 
>that the line "wants" to go, and seeing as you are a novice fly-caster, 
>I doubt very much if you will overload the road at this stage.
>
>When you learn to double haul and go in for distance casting, THEN be 
>careful, you could quite easily smash a rod.

By the way,  I thought the NG was too quiet.  In the winter I expect it 
to be so but I have only now seen postings from the beginning of the 
year!

Strange! Has my ISP been hiding them??
-- 
Bill Grey

In article , Bill Grey
<URL:mailto:wdg@graigroad.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> By the way,  I thought the NG was too quiet.  In the winter I expect it 
> to be so but I have only now seen postings from the beginning of the 
> year!

Well, it -has- been quiet but, have you looked at the dates of the posts to
which you were replying?

> Strange! Has my ISP been hiding them??

Dunno where they were hidden or by whom...

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