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Walter.....
No.....not an earlier, RECORDING of it.....
My grandfather was a friend of Marvin. He taught us that the,
"technique" had been used for years by fly fishermen. It wasn't even
called a haul, then. It was simply what you did with the "other hand"
whenever you made a stroke, forward or backward.........or with each.
I suspect that most of the anglers who used it, then, just, "did it"
without necessarily thinking it through.
Reminds me of the time my Bahamian captain on a sport fisherman I kept at
Chub Key came in from Andros with a broken compass. Before the days of
electronics. I asked him how he could have navigated so accurately with no
compass. His reply, "Doc.....I just sailed TO there." !!
A practical note for salt water fishermen who are MCI candidates: One
of the hardest things for many of them is to NOT haul with each and every cast
event. It's really a problem with some, and demands ways to
avoid falling into that trap, like placing the line hand in a pocket, etc.
when the task should be done with no haul. Hauling, you see, is
ground into their chromosomes.
I was coaching one such candidate a while back, and I could see his hand
move IN the pants pocket with each cast.
Gordy
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