Moderator hat: Off, personal opinion only
Jason,
"for a post which claims a lesson learned then what would you suggest was the lesson"
Read the words: " and on that particular day, on that particular river with those particular rigs that he had better success with the rod in one inclination over another. "
"why is it you also appear to be suggesting we not try to find out if there is actually any usefull information there at all. by posing perfectly civilised and reasonable questions."
I am simply suggesting that in the interests of good manners that I do not consider the following as 'civilised or reasonable' especially noting that the original poster has never claimed to be offering 'supporting evidence' qiite the contrary in fact.
"this is a rather important question graham, it would mean the difference between some supporting evidence for the theory and a meaningless experiment for a start."
As I view this, Rog is/was purely telling of his experiences as I have clarified above, for even the most analytical of scientists to understand, so to suggest that his experience was 'meaningless' I find somewhat disingenuous.
Paul:
"Agree with Messers Carrot and Whatmore here. With no degree of control experiment to compare the results against no conclusive result can be detrmined."
Same comment, therefore the same answer from me, the original poster did not suggest that his experiences were anything other than, well, experiences really.
He has drawn a conclusion for Himself, but if you have a real desire to conduct a controlled experiment (to a conclusive end) then if you have the time I am sure that the Editors would be happy to publish your (or Jason's) findings accordingly, either in an article of on a new thread.
All I am really suggesting here Jason and Paul, is to give the man a little 'slack' Rog is a very good and experienced angler and all he is doing is passing on this information.
Moderator hat; back on