Do i pull it or not.

[Wye me?]

I was just about to throw my first cast into this debate but noticed that johnb had said it all...... However, my rule is gentle take = gentle hit : heavy take = HIT IT.
Off to check my flies now......

[garrydog]

As a few people have said ,it's all about having confidence in the method that you fish. But I will pull it a bit more this year and see if it does me any good. But I still think that there is a definite advantage in fishing off the reel, but this is only my opinion or so it seems.

[T7]

Interesting that people seem to fish faster for sea trout than salmon. I haven't had much success fishing fast for sea trout, except in the early evening casting square across fast water and usually smaller fish. Whereas I have had salmon stripping line as fast as possible. I have a lot more confidence fishing an ultra slow figure of eight for sea trout than fast stripping...

[johnevs]

Same here t7 but there are are a lot on my river said to me when I first started seatrout fishing in that you will get a lot of takes casting square or even up river slightly and a down stream mend and let them swing fast in the current have seen a few catch with this method but never seems to work with me, only a slow figure of eight so have tended to stick to what works for me...:@