Paul Arden | Wednesday, 11 February 2026
I’m covering for James today. In the meantime I thought I’d draw your attention to the Sexyloops Board. I know it’s very well read but it’s also great to get involved. We are very welcoming, happy to discuss everything fly fishing and fly casting. It’s not the BS angry world the social media can be. In fact if you are an angry troll then please don’t post!!
In my opinion, and everyone else’s for that matter, it is the very best place to find out about fly casting and teaching. Arguably it’s a very serious angling place too and no fly fishing or fly tying question would be out of place. In fact if you want to learn advanced fly tying techniques such as the “whipfuck” then this is the only place. That was one of my inventions.
25 years ago, before the Social Media revolution, discussion forums were the only online place to ask questions. And quite frankly I’ve always joined discussion forums for information. Social Media does not thrill me at all. Apart from the discussions often resulting in heated vitriolic exchanges, often the information is just plain wrong too!
I don’t know why this is so. Why it is that wrong information continues to permeate. It’s a bit disappointing really. And even when people are corrected they often continue to regurgitate wrong information.
I suppose there will always be the big spring in flycasting, hauling working by increasing the spring effect, the anchor loading the rod, the backcast preloading the forward cast, constant tension, constant acceleration, the stop unloading the rod, Paul’s socks are dangerous.
Ok that last one is true. Paul’s socks *are* dangerous but nowadays only because they are full of bees.
Many years ago we had a charity auction on Sexyloops and I auctioned off one of my socks. The winning bid was 17USD. The winner (Grubscrew) asked me to send it to President Bush. Which I did of course. This is why the CIA are now aware of Sexyloops and have covert operations to try to acquire the other sock. But they won’t be successful because none of my socks match.
I also sent a potato through the post once, because I could. The Royal Mail introduced sticky stamps that you didn’t have to lick. So I stuck one on a small spud, wrote Jim Curry’s address directly onto the potato and dropped it in the mailbox. Apparently the postman told Jim that in 37 years of being a postman he had never delivered a potato before. I can only imagine how much entertainment that potato caused along its journey.
Anyway to join the Board you’ll need to send me an email with your desired username. There is no automated registration because strange people used to join and try to sell us shoes, women and worms. Worms!!!
Talking of which, for the record, I am not in the Epstein files!
Have a great day.
Cheers, Paul