Casting efficiency

Walter & Group.......

This is a very important message from Chuck Easterling:

Hi Gordy,

 

One of the things I think many casters neglect is working on increasing efficiency.

 

When someone takes the Master's test and it comes time for the distance cast I am quite interested in not only the distance but how the line and leader lay out.  I am  more impressed with a candidate who makes a nice clean (relatively straight layout) cast and has the yarn land at 87' than I am with a candidate who casts farther but has everything land in a pile.

 

This is what I think is an interesting test.  Make your five best distance casts and record not only your distance but also after each cast stretch out your line and leader and see how much line and leader it actually took to reach that distance.  How much slop/ineffiency did you have in your cast in order to reach that distance?   Do you think you would be a better caster if you could reduce that slop/inefficiency? 

 

                                                      Chuck

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Chuck...   I really like that drill !

 

 Another way of looking at it would be to consider  the slop measurement ( the distance from where the fly actually landed to where it can be placed with the line out straight.) as the, INEFFICIENCY INDEX.

 

Sounds overly, "official", but I'm sure that once the caster has mastered the techniques needed to reduce this distance and have a nice straight layout, he'll have learned to make the required distance with a great deal less effort.

 

It is amazing to me that some casters cast out to the 90' mark on the fly line but are a good 20' from a target out 90' from the caster.  That leaves a full 20' of , "slop" .  "20' inefficiency index".

 

All MCCI candidates should work on that.

 

Gordy

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