Thanks for a great spey day.

[Carl Zmola]

Thanks to everyone.

It was a fantastic event.

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Carl

[Yang Chang]

Thanks to Dan and John for organizing this wonderful event. It was very nice to meet many members this morning.

Yang

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[Daniel Davala]

GREAT TURNOUT TODAY!!!  We had 16 people participate and a lot of non-TPFR observers as you can imagine.  I counted at least 14 two-handed rods and everyone was gracious and willing to share.  Everyone attending learned how to make a good D-Loop, where to place the "anchor", and how little effort is actually required on the forward cast when these two things are done properly.  Several people got to try out a Skagit line for the first time with some eye-opening results, and everyone got to see how the Spey Casts can be made with single-hand rods as well.  We also addressed and corrected several "rigging issues" that can really affect the results when making these casts, especially when one is new to them.  

 

We had BEAUTIFUL weather, a perfect low/incoming tide which gave us plenty of "beach" to spread out on, and no one fishing in that stretch to be mindful of.  I loved the "informal" nature of the event, which really made it feel like we were all just there to play with a little bit of learning mixed in.  I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.  

 

This is the type of event John and I have been discussing for some time, and I couldn't be happier with how well it went.  Thank you all for coming out and making it a FULL SUCCESS!  Yang (whose questions about single hand Spey Casting and switch rods inspired this gathering) travelled all the way from Baltimore to be there.  We will do more of these for sure and post them to the club when we do.

 

Now, like the rest of you, I eagerly await Todd's pictures.  If anyone else got any pictures, let's see them!

 

Dan     

[Joe Molloy]

I had to leave earlier than expected on Sunday and didn't get a chance
to thank everyone who helped out(since you were still out casting).
It was nice to get to try out the 2 handed rods and get some work on
spey casting which I'm looking forward to using more often when i fish
on smaller streams.
Thanks again.

joe

> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Yang Chang <yangch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to Dan and John for organizing this wonderful event. It was very
> > nice to meet many members this morning.
>
> > Yang
>
> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Carl Zmola <zm...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> >> Thanks to everyone.
>
> >> It was a fantastic event.
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