Mending Rainbows

Mending Rainbows: Domestic Violence in the LGBT Community/Communities. Bianca Jackson and Lucinda Wicks, both barristers at Coram.
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Last week Alaska West guide, Jason Whiting, presented us with a great technique for targeting hard to reach trout with streamers by using a series of micro mends to provide action to your fly.


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Today, Jason is back with another great tip for a situation that most trout anglers can relate to. At Alaska West, we frequently fish for big trout and salmon that have stacked themselves in the slow water next to a high bank. Far too often however, we see our clients get frustrated as the fly is quickly ripped out of the zone as soon as their line hits the water. Last week we presented you with the idea of using mends to impart action on your fly in deep and fast water situations.

Well, this same method can be used in this situation. When you make your cast to the slack water near shore or behind a rock, rather than stripping your fly, start using controlled mends to give your fly action. This will not only make a fishy presentation, but the mends will help keep your fly in the zone a few crucial extra seconds, allowing the fish to catch up.


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    • Spey rods are cool. However, when swinging flies for anadramous fish, one of the greatest advantages of a two handed rod is the ability to mend and control great amounts of line with little effort. While following him down the run on river-right , after chucking a laser-tight loop to mid river, we noticed Hawkeye making a large upstream mend with his left bottom hand, before transferring the rod back to his right hand to fish out the swing. Because doing so allowed for line to be mended several feet further upstream than had he mended with his right top hand.

    Regardless of what is your dominant hand. Many fly tyers go to great lengths trying to achieve a desired profile, and it is this idea that has stemmed many modern steelhead and salmon patterns. But how do you know whether you are mending correctly? Is it landing as straight as an arrow fabulous or does it have a little upstream curve to it not what we want?

    As you lift to mend in the classic upstream position, get yourself a solid visual on the fly as to draw it back into a straight line as the mend occurs. When swinging flies, mending your line can be used to accomplish a number of things such as: To place slack into the line to allow your tip and fly to sink. To place a belly into the line to keep your fly from sinking too deep.

    To slow down your swing. To speed up your swing.

    Mending Rainbows: Domestic Violence in the LGBT Community/Communities

    That can make it difficult to present the fly with a natural drag-free drift. The reach cast is a simple way of presenting a fly so that your line lands at an angle either upstream or downstream or your fly.

    If done correctly, the fly will land directly in front of you while the line will be positioned at an angle to the side. It can be performed both with a fixed amount of line, or when shooting line as well. For a complete breakdown on the reach cast or reach mend , check out our entire post on the topic, here. This is a great tool when trying to position the line around a rock, a funky eddy, or any other obstacle between you and your fly.

    This will cause a wave in the line, that with a little practice, can be accurately positioned at different distances depending on the obstacle. To perform, cast with a higher than normal trajectory on the forward cast — as if you were aiming over the tree-tops. After stopping your rod, thus allowing your loop to form, drop your rod tip all the way down to the surface of the water. The higher the trajectory on the forward cast, the more slack will be introduced, and the closer the fly will land to you. Likewise, there are certain behaviours that are more common when the perpetrator is the former heterosexual partner of a victim in a same-sex relationship.

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    Challenges to addressing LGBT domestic violence All of the aforementioned conduct falls under the rubric of "molestation" pursuant to s. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered men and women still struggle to access professional help, whether they are victims or perpetrators. The reason for this seems to be threefold: There is also the tendency for victims whether heterosexual or LGBT to trivialise their experiences if abused.

    Whilst some of this silence derives from the fact that most information on domestic abuse applies to the experiences of heterosexual women, there is also the sense amongst some members of the LGBT community that they should not be "airing their dirty laundry", not least because of the struggles that they have faced in accessing basic equality, such as same-sex marriage. For individual victims, vocalising their abuse could result in being ostracised from the LGBT community, which is particularly distressing where the community essentially functions as the person's family in lieu of a supportive family network.

    This script informs the ways in which the front-line professionals, including the police, medical profession, MARAC, and domestic violence intervention organisations, recognise, name, and deal with domestic abuse. For example, the police are not currently trained to recognise same-sex relationships. As such, an officer may mistake a fight at a pub between two men as a general incident of assault, rather than domestic abuse between partners, or automatically assume that two women living together are roommates, instead of girlfriends. Jo Harvey Barringer cites the particularly harrowing incident reported to Broken Rainbow whereby a woman was attacked by her female partner to the extent that she was admitted to the hospital and the perpetrator was subsequently allowed access to the victim at the hospital because she claimed to be her sister; the medical staff having assumed that the victim had been assaulted by a male partner.

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    For example, there is only one LGBT-specific refuge in the entirety of the UK, in Brighton, which means that victims and their children often have no place to go if they want to escape the perpetrator. Likewise, there are no LGBT-specific perpetrator programmes. Whilst victims and perpetrators can access resources aimed at heterosexual persons, often these resources are predicated on a heternormative model of domestic abuse and do not take into account the different manifestations of violence, power, and control specific to LGBT abuse.

    What can legal practitioners do?