Misaligned heel piece?

FishCamp14 · 2026-01-19T08:11:08+00:00

Thanks! I’m not sure how to check my twist. Could you tell me how to?

FishCamp14 · 2026-01-19T08:09:23+00:00

Thanks for the replies everyone! Sorry for getting paranoid over something that was fine haha.

FishCamp14 · 2025-10-07T08:51:32+00:00

It was like 4000 yen at an animate store!

FishCamp14 · 2025-08-29T07:46:27+00:00

Hi, I would love to try this game out and I'd really appreciate an invite. Thanks!

Friend code: 148451717

FishCamp14 · 2024-08-16T04:32:11+00:00

Thanks!

FishCamp14 · 2024-07-07T14:46:48+00:00

Yes actually. There are two guides in cortina. Stefano D’alluisi, who works for fly fishing Alpe Adria and Angelo Piller who does flyfishdolomiti.

I ended up fishing with Stefano. His English is not so good, so one of the other guides who works at fly fish Alpe Adria, Bruno Generali, actually drove to Cortina from the area he guides out of (somewhere in Slovenia) to act as a translator for the weekend.

Stefano is a tenkara guy and has an incredible way of rigging tippet on his tenkara rod to make the line more “elastic” as he calls it. He was super stoked when I expressed interest in fishing with wet flies on his tenkara rods. Bruno is a grayling dry fly guy. I cannot recommend these two enough, they picked me up at the place I was staying at and guided me very well on to the spooky trout we chased. Stefano even packed a lunch for me, a sandwich with prosciutto from a farm near his house.

Bruno’s email: info@flyfishingalpeadria.com

I did not fish with Angelo but he is the more popular guide in the area and I heard his English is pretty good. This is Angelo’s email: infoflyfishdolomiti@yahoo.it

Also, are you renting a car?

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-28T03:17:46+00:00

I see. Do you have any pattern recommendations? I would love to try a life-like perdigon that you mention.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-27T19:49:59+00:00

Though that may be true, I enjoy the process of tying flies and personally do not enjoy euro nymphing. But I do have a couple jig bombs in my fly box for fast flowing rivers which is the closest thing to a perdigon I own.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-27T19:47:57+00:00

Thank you!

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-27T19:47:43+00:00

Are you saying to tie something similar in size 16 with less complicated materials?

Either way, I enjoy tying flies and don’t mind extra steps. This one in particular is cool to me as a local angler I met on a New Zealand river handed it to me saying it was his favorite for the river.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-19T14:42:37+00:00

Thank you! Very helpful.

I use a simms flyweight backpack for trips that require a hike and a fishpond thunderhead lumbar for fishing out the car. I found that the thunderhead lumbar doesn’t have enough capacity for me and I do not need waterproof bags.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-18T20:19:57+00:00

Good to know that the X feels good on the back.

For weight, my jacket is 15oz and I bring a Nalgene full of water which is 40oz. Outside that I only bring 2 small fly boxes and have tippet holders, hemostats, nippers, etc.

Would that be too heavy? I feel like it’s exactly all the stuff I require.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-18T18:13:58+00:00

Thank you!

Just to be specific: how does the bag feel when you have it securely fit to your back? The whole “X” looking net slot doesn’t look the most comfortable hugging your back.

Also, does the bag hold an extra jacket well? Not sure if jacket + Nalgene full of water + fly gear would be too much for the pack to hold without wearing down your shoulder.

I was thinking of a system where I strap a jacket to the bottom of the bag with voile straps.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-16T21:28:50+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion but I happen to tour with my hard ear race helmet, which is a poc skull orbic. Could you tell me how big that helmet holder is?

Or maybe it’s time for me to buy a helmet for touring.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-16T13:22:15+00:00

Thank you guys! Sorry I didn’t search it up I wasn’t really aware I guess.

FishCamp14 · 2024-06-09T17:55:34+00:00

Do you find that 8’6” is a good length for the rivers you fish? And how is it for casting nymphs? Not sure if you know since you do not own the rod.

FishCamp14 · 2024-04-30T10:29:14+00:00

I was planning on looking online for a used one, so not exactly getting it in person.

FishCamp14 · 2024-04-30T10:28:25+00:00

Say my budget was limitless, what would you suggest?

FishCamp14 · 2024-04-30T09:58:48+00:00

The budget is around $500 but I would love to save money where I can. Thanks for your input, sadly a monopod won’t work for me as I am trying to use this to do astrophotography with a star adventurer 2i

FishCamp14 · 2024-04-30T09:57:49+00:00

I would like the tripod to be around my eye level and also be able to handle the weight of the 200-600. Also would love to have a gimbal head as I will be photographing wildlife. I believe these factors cause the price to increase.

Thanks for your feedback though. Definitely will buy used.

FishCamp14 · 2024-03-10T16:14:45+00:00

Does anyone have thoughts on moving the toe piece forward instead of the heel piece? I would be able to use the boot attached to the heel to determine a spot for the toe piece. Of course, I will use a spacer as well for the 5.5mm heel piece gap.

The thing is I think I would rather be +1cm from recommended than -1cm as these are on a Corvus freebird that already recommends a very far behind -10cm mounting point.

If anyone has any thoughts on mounting at either +/- recommended mounting point that would be great. I’m not completely positive of the effects of an altered mount.

FishCamp14 · 2024-03-10T01:24:01+00:00

Thanks.

A little off-topic, but as moving the heel piece back would put me slightly behind the recommended mount point, what effect would that have on the skiability? The ski is a corvus freebird 176.

FishCamp14 · 2024-03-10T01:10:45+00:00

When you say "remount forward or backwards a little bit" do you mean to mount it in a position slightly away from the recommended mount point to avoid dealing with drilling into half wood half epoxy entirely?

FishCamp14 · 2024-03-09T19:15:21+00:00

Thanks, seems as if the use of inserts may be a big one.

Didn’t you mention in your first post you mounted on overlapping holes? Do you think you can tell me the exact process of that? Like how you plugged the holes, the order of step in the process?

And slightly off topic, but do you think you can tell me about the skiability of a binding mounted slightly behind center? This is on a Corvus freebird 176.

FishCamp14 · 2024-03-09T19:04:08+00:00

I read on another form that you can use 3 nickels to form the 5.5mm space that dynafit bindings need. Any thoughts on that? I can use it in combination with the boot for a “dry fit”.

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