CCI exam: Question for examiners

I have a question for the MCCI’s out there who test.

I was working with a CCI candidate last week who has a pretty good fundamental cast. He has 30 years of self taught casting behind him. When he took my workshop last spring he was pushing all of the time and getting resultant tails. We worked that out at the time (he was able to make adjustments easily) and he had been practicing about 10 hours a week when he came back for a pre-test run through.

Again I felt that his casting was more than sufficient to pass the performance test. There was one stylistic thing though, that I had to warn him about. His rod casting plane was about 30 degrees from vertical, but his line plane was nearly 40 degrees from vertical. In other words his line plane did not match his rod plane during his normal cast. He had parallel loops and good control, it just didn’t look right. He was also perfectly capable of throwing a vertical loop over a vertical rod plane and adjust to other angles from there.

What suggestions or comments would you have for this person regarding the line and rod planes being out of synch. ?

Guy Manning

FFF Master Certified Casting Instructor

Moderator FFFCCI Yahoo Group

www.castflys.net

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Let's have some suggestions / comments from you MCI's / CBOG's who have been testing. Gordy

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For several weeks, I've had our Group messages bounce when sent to these two members. If any of you are in contact with them, perhaps we can clear this up:

Bob Arwine : arwinerrr@xxxxxxxxxx

Rich Knowles: maknowles@xxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks !

Gordy