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- From: sandy@cs.montana.edu (Sandy Pittendrigh)
- Subject: Re: Flying Lure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.144615.13355@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:46:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.075539.24751@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> kevin@turbo.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Kevin Ormerod) writes:
- >
- >For Kee Chua and others that have asked --
- >
- I've never used this "flying lure" either, but I intend
- to make a "fly rod" version and try it. The idea of a fly/lure that
- tracks backward along the axis of the line is a good one. Western
- trout fishermen know that the biggest brown trout live under cotton
- -wood root snags. So any means of fishing in previously impossible
- spots is worth a try. Also, making your own, you could vary the
- appearance considerably.
- The main theme of the flying lure, it seems to me, is
- a flat, rear-wieghted bar, with legs at front that point forward,
- toward the fisherman.
- That way the body of the lure acts like a planing wing, while the
- legs produce less resistance travelling back, while producing
- far more resistance travelling forward::give it a little line, and
- gravity pulls it in a straight line, downward and away, along the
- axis of the line. Damned good idea!
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