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Turning Bum casts into Crafty Presentations
I am off the opinion that many presentation casts simply are controlled casting faults. Deviations of the Rod tip from the straight-line path during the casting stroke are often viewed as faults, and this is true whilst they still preformed unintentionally. However, once you have gained control of these faults, they can often be used to great effect.
Follow me.
One of the most common faults I see with these self-taught anglers is the inability to perform a high backed cast. As your back cast drops below the rod tip, you lose tension throughout the line, and must use much of the rods stored energy, to lift the line up and over the rod tip again. The result is often a high trajectory forward cast, which piles up at your feet. There are two common causes of I low in efficient back cast:
The first involves incorrectly using the wrist throughout the cast. Forget the all boys advice of 'and keep a firm wrist' or ‘don’t bend the wrist’ during the cast. You may use as much wrist as you like, as long as the rod tip follows a straight line path.
For me, I begin my cast by drawing the rod upwards into the back cast, maintaining a constant angle with the firm wrist, and then crack it late in the stroke in order to turn the Rob tip over. This accelerates, and subsequently flexes the rod against the fly line 'loads' and when you stop the rod, it straightens (unloads) propelling your line out behind you. It is important not to open your wrist too early in the stroke. This will create doming of the rod tip, and often result in a wide, efficient loop. Your stroke should look like this \\\\/ as opposed to \/.
For the most part, my rod tip has travelled upwards and rearward in a straight line path, before 'the flipping of the wrist'. This flipping is a small movement; to both accelerate the rod tip before the stop, and to move the rod away from my line of plane. The more I use my wrist here, the wider the resulting loop.>>\\\\/ not \/
The second common fault is in the trajectory of the back cast. It is important to remember that your back cast unrolls, gravity is pulling your line down towards the ground. This is the most obvious on longer casts, as the effect is magnified.
If you send your line, directly behind you, by the time the loop has unfurled It will have dropped beneath the rod tip, and as mentioned above, it will require much of your rods stored energy just to lift and aerialize again; energy that should be used to execute your forward cast. Think of your back cast as more of an ‘up cast’, and stop rod tip on its upward travel. This will give your back cast a more up good trajectory, and by the time your loop has straightened, it will still remain high, and under tension and efficient.
So control the opening of your wrist, and keep the relative to the size of your stroke. Stop your rod tip on its upward travel, to ensure a high and efficient back cast.
But what if you don't want a high back cast?
What if you don't want your forward cast to straighten?
What if you wish to fire off a pile cast?
Now you know, the effects of employing too much wrist to the back cast, and how to change the trajectory as well, so we are going to combine the two to in order to generate a truck load of slack line. You are going to perform the pile, or bucket cast.
The pile cast is used for a number of situations; when throwing upstream into a quiet pocket, when throwing your fly into a swirling eddy, when presenting a downstream dry fly.
Basically, we are going to throw a low back cast, followed by a high forward cast. As the forward cast is straightening, we are going to kill the cast. The result will be a pile of slack line, right there at our feet.
So we know, what not to do, if we don’t want to low back cast - as you lift into your back cast, lift a little longer than you would normally, then a crisp, late rotation all the wrist, directing your rod tip backwards and down will send your line below in behind you, as it straightens, fire a high trajectory forward cast, shooting line. As your forward cast, straighten high in the air, pulled down with the rod tip to the water. Now watch as your line falls back on itself, creating a pile of slack.
Easy! The lower your back cast, the higher your forecast, the more slack he line you can create.
You have now identified a casting fault, corrected it, learnt how to control it, and now have a highly effective presentation casts in your arsenal!
You were pile casting from day one - you just didn't know it yet!
Turning Bum casts into Crafty Presentations
I am off the opinion that many presentation casts simply are controlled casting faults. Deviations of the Rod tip from the straight-line path during the casting stroke are often viewed as faults, and this is true whilst they still preformed unintentionally. However, once you have gained control of these faults, they can often be used to great effect.
Follow me.
One of the most common faults I see with these self-taught anglers is the inability to perform a high backed cast. As your back cast drops below the rod tip, you lose tension throughout the line, and must use much of the rods stored energy, to lift the line up and over the rod tip again. The result is often a high trajectory forward cast, which piles up at your feet. There are two common causes of I low in efficient back cast:
The first involves incorrectly using the wrist throughout the cast. Forget the all boys advice of 'and keep a firm wrist' or ‘don’t bend the wrist’ during the cast. You may use as much wrist as you like, as long as the rod tip follows a straight line path.
For me, I begin my cast by drawing the rod upwards into the back cast, maintaining a constant angle with the firm wrist, and then crack it late in the stroke in order to turn the Rob tip over. This accelerates, and subsequently flexes the rod against the fly line 'loads' and when you stop the rod, it straightens (unloads) propelling your line out behind you. It is important not to open your wrist too early in the stroke. This will create doming of the rod tip, and often result in a wide, efficient loop. Your stroke should look like this \\\\/ as opposed to \/.
For the most part, my rod tip has travelled upwards and rearward in a straight line path, before 'the flipping of the wrist'. This flipping is a small movement; to both accelerate the rod tip before the stop, and to move the rod away from my line of plane. The more I use my wrist here, the wider the resulting loop.>>\\\\/ not \/
The second common fault is in the trajectory of the back cast. It is important to remember that your back cast unrolls, gravity is pulling your line down towards the ground. This is the most obvious on longer casts, as the effect is magnified.
If you send your line, directly behind you, by the time the loop has unfurled It will have dropped beneath the rod tip, and as mentioned above, it will require much of your rods stored energy just to lift and aerialize again; energy that should be used to execute your forward cast. Think of your back cast as more of an ‘up cast’, and stop rod tip on its upward travel. This will give your back cast a more up good trajectory, and by the time your loop has straightened, it will still remain high, and under tension and efficient.
So control the opening of your wrist, and keep the relative to the size of your stroke. Stop your rod tip on its upward travel, to ensure a high and efficient back cast.
But what if you don't want a high back cast?
What if you don't want your forward cast to straighten?
What if you wish to fire off a pile cast?
Now you know, the effects of employing too much wrist to the back cast, and how to change the trajectory as well, so we are going to combine the two to in order to generate a truck load of slack line. You are going to perform the pile, or bucket cast.
The pile cast is used for a number of situations; when throwing upstream into a quiet pocket, when throwing your fly into a swirling eddy, when presenting a downstream dry fly.
Basically, we are going to throw a low back cast, followed by a high forward cast. As the forward cast is straightening, we are going to kill the cast. The result will be a pile of slack line, right there at our feet.
So we know, what not to do, if we don’t want to low back cast - as you lift into your back cast, lift a little longer than you would normally, then a crisp, late rotation all the wrist, directing your rod tip backwards and down will send your line below in behind you, as it straightens, fire a high trajectory forward cast, shooting line. As your forward cast, straighten high in the air, pulled down with the rod tip to the water. Now watch as your line falls back on itself, creating a pile of slack.
Easy! The lower your back cast, the higher your forecast, the more slack he line you can create.
You have now identified a casting fault, corrected it, learnt how to control it, and now have a highly effective presentation casts in your arsenal!
You were pile casting from day one - you just didn't know it yet!