ol Al...
Yes. As Kevin false casts, he has the feeling of insufficient load on the rod. He'd probably casting with a WF line....which is ok....but does't load at 50' carried as well as a long belly line like the Rio Loncast or XXD. This feeling often has the caster apply a spike of power too soon in the stroke. In turn, this yields a brief concavity in the rod tip path and a tail. One way or the other, he can solve the problem by:
1.) Longer tip travel ( increased followthrough on the back cast which increases both stroke length and rod arc potential for the forward cast.)
2.) Longer loading move combined with shorter, "power snap".
3.) Lefty's trick of using NO MORE POWER ON THE DELIVERY CAST THAN WAS USED ON THE PRIOR FALSE CAST.....but with a faster haul.
Gordy
From: "Allen Crise" <flysoup@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gordon Hill" <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: FW: So much power, So little line
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 21:58:53 -0500
After you and Rick have hashed it out can you answer this one?
Still running wide open. lesson and Shows.... I need to work to catch up...
ol AL
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hensley [mailto:jargo432@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 8:39 PM
To: Allen Crise
Subject: So much power, So little line
Allen
During my practice today I decided to load up my 7wt
rod with 5wt line to see what happens. I'm doing
experiments with things like this to help learn the
dynamics of the proper casting stroke. While casting
about 50 foot of line I found it very hard to stop a
tailing loop. I felt I had way too much power in the
stroke and couldn't ease off enough. Even with the
thumb down advice from Lefty I couldn't stop the tail.
Would you discuss the dynamics of casting with too
light of a line and how the rod acts without enough
line to work the rod?
Thanks
Kevin
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