Wallis Casting
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 10:10 am
I think I learn things differently from others, I don't know, some things seem easy, others impossibly difficult but, the achievement in overcoming obstacle is satisfying.
I approached Wallis Casting almost indifferently. I enjoy spey casting and surely Wallis casting isn't as tricky? except that yes it seems more so.
Having become bored with fly fishing and the insistant request to pay my subs I black balled myself, which was extreme in it's consequence having waited ten or more years to gain admittance to a most exalted society of gentlefolk, generals, baronesses, lords, which yet lacked pour moi a sense of belonging. Would my piscatorial days end here, or was a further adventure required? Yes of course the world of the coarse gestured its attraction.
Anyway I decided roach would be the thing, actually I'd seen some clonkers in the upper Test, yet fly fishing attempts had yielded nothing. A wallis Avon rod was secured as were two cheap centrepins plus some aerials and the like.
Anyway the far east made pins spun like blazes so I followed the Wallis tubes and became a Wally. Struggling, tangles, frustration but a modicum of achievement from time to time.
Anyway I found this:
http://www.chrislythe-centrepins.co.uk/ ... e-pin.html
as close to idiot proof as I have found. Out into the garden, Chapman 500, 3.5 Aerial and 75g lead, perfection. Later fishing - perfection, tried the float - perfection.
Hope this proves of worth to some fellow brothers.
I approached Wallis Casting almost indifferently. I enjoy spey casting and surely Wallis casting isn't as tricky? except that yes it seems more so.
Having become bored with fly fishing and the insistant request to pay my subs I black balled myself, which was extreme in it's consequence having waited ten or more years to gain admittance to a most exalted society of gentlefolk, generals, baronesses, lords, which yet lacked pour moi a sense of belonging. Would my piscatorial days end here, or was a further adventure required? Yes of course the world of the coarse gestured its attraction.
Anyway I decided roach would be the thing, actually I'd seen some clonkers in the upper Test, yet fly fishing attempts had yielded nothing. A wallis Avon rod was secured as were two cheap centrepins plus some aerials and the like.
Anyway the far east made pins spun like blazes so I followed the Wallis tubes and became a Wally. Struggling, tangles, frustration but a modicum of achievement from time to time.
Anyway I found this:
http://www.chrislythe-centrepins.co.uk/ ... e-pin.html
as close to idiot proof as I have found. Out into the garden, Chapman 500, 3.5 Aerial and 75g lead, perfection. Later fishing - perfection, tried the float - perfection.
Hope this proves of worth to some fellow brothers.