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Old 05-27-2016, 07:49 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Northern Spy View Post
I can toss a well coiled heavy line fairly far. We were taught this kind of side armed to overhead with a straight arm kind of way in the Navy. Worked quite well. But we usually used light line with a monkey fist on it as a messenger. We called it a heavie.

I bet I can still toss a heavie like back in my navy days. Half the coil in each hand, could easily get one hundred feet from the deck of a sub, which is probably lower than many forum members decks

That's the method I learned. I like that better than the Great Lakes method, which is a tall, tight coil of weighted poly line. No monkey fist. They throw it in one big glob. I've always been one to break it into two coils, and throw with both hands.
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