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Ronan's report

Last Tuesday I gave a course in a local fishing club on making loops on flylines and shootingheads. We covered three methods - the basic blind splice, the welded loop - as explained by Lasse Karlsson - here in joining two flylines, but it works just as well on loops, and the braided loop you pull over the flyline! Maybe I should do a cover on the three lethods one day - maybe including some video? Let me know if that's a good idea!

For the purpose of the demonstration, I made a new shootinghead for my TCR 590 - a short, slow inermediate shootinghead which I'll be using in a couple of specific locations where backcast room is limited, the wading is deep and distance required :-). I put the head in the shooting head wallet this morning (see PoD), and it was actually full already :-). So that spawned the thought of how the Hell I always end up with a bizillion shootingheads for every single rod in my collection?

In there, you'll find a long (13m) floater, three medium floaters (10,8m - two of which are experimental :-), a short floater (9,2m) and a very short floater (8m), a medium (9,1m) fast intermediate, a medium (9,1m) slow intermediate, a short (8,15m) slow intermediate (the one I just made) and a very short (7,4m) sinkrate 6. Is it possible to make do with less? :-)

So i asked myself how often I really use these shootingheads - my primary heads are the medium length floaters and the medium length intermediate - I probably use them 50/50. But the fact it that all the other heads *do* come into use every now and then, and I'd actually hate to be without them. Every once in a while I find myself in a situation where the fishing just gets so much easier with short head than with one of the longer ones. And with the loop-to-loop connections, you can change them in a matter of minutes.

Of course I do have more than I actually *need* as such, but it is an incredibly flexible system that aloows me to get easy distance in all sorts of situations!

Have a nice weekend!

Lars

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