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A note from Gordy
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Server.... Please forward this to the Group for me........ Your discussion of what we might call, "the snap-t-effect" is, I feel, valid. That ceiling trick demo's it nicely. Your description of a, "baseline cast" almost doesn't exist in the real world of casting. If it did, we'd have convex pathways of the rod tip in each instance where the rod load was insufficient to produce enough bend in the rod....which would be for all but very few casts. This leads to one of the theoretical problems with analyzing casts from computer readouts generated by the use of the Casting Analyzer which measures only one thing.....angular change of position of the rod butt. Period. This ignores translation movement of the casting hand (and the cork grip). A new generation of analyzer might well incorporate both. In real world distance casting, we have many things going on in additional to the angular movement of the rod in response to torsional forces....and most of these are partly if not fully translational . They include: 1. Translational movement of the hand, 2. Movement of the upper body in the direction of the target, 3. (Often) a step forward and, 4. (Occasionally) a jump forward by the caster. Some day, we may even have a casting robot such as the, "Iron Byron" used to reproduce and analyze golf swings as well as computerized devices well advanced compared to what we have now. Will all this help us catch more fish ????? Probably not. Will it help us cast better ? I think so. Gordy Now my remarks to Gordy's remarks. The "baseline" cast is both a useful cast and a useful theoretical paradigm. In moving water trout fishing I use it most of the time anyway. For fishing off the deck of a boat one has more flexible conditions and can implement the more exaggerated motions but in many other fishing situations they are less feasible and less necessary. In my very, very limited experience in sight type fishing in shallow water I don't thing the guide could pick out what was happening at more than fifty feet anyway. In demonstrating to audiences my standad cast is 40-60 ft with no haul and no hand translation except to get the rod to the casting position. In fact if you are wading and fishing it is a very normal cast and the routines one goes through for distance aren't that important. But more important it is an excellent platform from which to examine casting physics and mechanics. At some time in the future I'll describe the physics of what I've been describing as base motion effects. The items you mentioned fall largely fall into that category or into area that I call angle effects. By the way a good test, say for the master's performance exam, would be to demonstrate 60 ft with loop integrity with the line trapped under a finger and chest translation of no more than several inches. Server |