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Post by custheyder on Aug 22, 2014 9:44:26 GMT
The Isle of Man is not part of the UK which is where Esoteric tackle is based. We only put UK on our postal address to give the rest of the world a clue as to where to find us! Explained here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18251379
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Post by orangeotter on Sept 3, 2014 18:42:29 GMT
I recently bought a 4.5 mtr line from Daniel and used it yesterday and today. I had previously made a tapered line from Yamatoyo (green) and found it far better than level fluoro' - however, the moment I cast the Fujino it was obviously far superior to mine.It feels quite heavy and casts superbly, probably a great choice for a beginner. I went for the stiffer green version and the colour is pretty vivid, even more than the Yamatoyo to which I've added a section of orange as an indicator. I could see the Fujino easily in all lights. Because it's nylon the comment has been made that it will struggle in wind, the past 2 days were reasonably breezy and I had no more problems than with fluoro'. I did have some issues with the 15ft + 3 ft tippet on my 12ft 9" rod - really struggled to keep the full length off the water but I can solve that by dropping down to 4 mtrs. Should you wish to lay line on the water( shock horror) you'll find that it floats, or at worst only just goes under where fluor' sinks quickly.I believe the orange version is more limp so I don't know how that would behave, I've got a mental block about hot orange anyway. All I can say in conclusion is that on my 7:3 rod it casts a dream and I would recommend it.
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Post by Paul G on Sept 3, 2014 22:19:20 GMT
The long tapered nylon lines (Masami had some up to 12m long) tend to be designed for "Honryu" tenkara - in which typically some of the casting line towards the "fly end" of the rig is laid on the water - so that isn't a problem when used as a solution to the relevant presentation problem Louis (i.e. fishing into slower water over the top of fast current rips on wide rivers at range). The tippet is made a bit longer to counteract the presence of line in/on the water and the flies tend to be manipulated rather than dead drifted (see more detail here: www.discovertenkara.co.uk/honryu-and-keiryu-tenkara-new-conceptual-categories-outside-japan/As a rule of thumb level fluoro is great for "Keiryu" tenkara and is be very effective for Honryu tenkara also (typically with lines in the 6 - 10m long range). There is a specialised Honryu application of the heavy nylon tapered line (the butt sections are really thick to generate that sufficient mass) where the greater buoyancy of nylon versus fluorocarbon can maintain a reduced angle between light flies and the casting line on the water. For heavier flies (including bead heads for those Honryu anglers that feel OK to use them), Fluorocarbon is probably best for the same reason of keeping the casting line in a similar plane to the fly (i.e. both line and fly will be fishing deeper with weighted flies and fluorocarbon line of relatively heavy ratings in the #3.5 to #4.5 range laid on the water). Hope this is useful
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Post by dbl on Sept 3, 2014 23:43:07 GMT
I mentioned in a recent post that I imported a small folding tamo/damo (not sure if there is a difference, they used "damo"). A very neat little thing, ideal for travelling. To make better use of the shipping charge I bought several small items including, out of curiosity, a Sunline Standard LongCast. This is a tapered line in nylon. It is 8 metres long and has a 5 metre butt section of 4.5 line, a taper of 2 metres and a 1 metre tip of 1.5 line. There is an Expert version which has a butt section starting in 3.5 line. I assume you can trim off a little of the level butt to match rod length and casting skill. I guess you would also want to use a rod of at least 4.5 metres? This post has more details: tenkarausa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4111
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Post by Paul G on Sept 4, 2014 18:34:32 GMT
I suspect that the tamo/damo thing is an example of 'rendaku' or sequential voicing that you get in Japanese. More on this phenomenon here www.discovertenkara.co.uk/about-tenkara/origins-of-sakasa-kebari/The Japanese are very fond of abbreviations, so as a complete guess, it wouldn't be outrageous to imagine that the Japanese for 'folding' might have originally preceded the character for 'tamo' (which due to rendaku would be pronounced damo). This could subsequently have been shortened to just damo for convenience. Either that or it is just an arbitrary choice to voice the character da instead of ta in speech (which is then transcribed phonetically into English letters for the same sound)
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Post by orangeotter on Sept 5, 2014 18:18:01 GMT
Line: thanks Paul, I understand the intended application better now.
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Post by tenkaracz on Sept 20, 2014 7:45:38 GMT
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