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I am a bit curious, just because I am a curious creature, as to how you judge how much line you can cast.
As far as I understand the distance you can cast (not that distance (D) is important in catching fish neccessarily, although we have a tool in our hands that can cast prodiguous distances if used properly, why not take advantage of it once and a while right?) is measured as:
D = Leader length + Plus fly line outside the rod tip length + length of rod to your reel
So if I had the belly of my Mastery Tri tip (which is about 65 feet) at the point where the rear taper is just outisde the rod tip I would have (floating line/long leader) 15 feet of leader, 65 feet of belly, plus about 13 feet to the reel on my 14 foot rod (say the bottom handle is about 1 foot) which equals = 93 feet.
At the same time, and I'm just using this as an example, if you look at the video of Kush doing the reverse snake roll on Dana's site it says in the last paragraph it says: "keep in mind here that he is picking up over 100 ft of line."
Now is that line to the reel, or is that line outside the rod tip?
Also, when they were doing the casting championships back in England which Steve Choate and Way Yin performed well in as we all know, does anyone know the criteria for how distance was gone about being measured there? Was it the above formula, or line outside the rod tip? Or was it distance cast from where the caster was standing?
I used to always get so pissed off at myself when I was casting and I was at the point where my rear taper is just getting to the point of just being outside my rod tip, but gosh, with the D= formula which I put up there, I'm not feeling so bad. I always think "well I only have 65 feet out," but with that extra 28 feet making it a 93 foot cast, according to this formula, I'm feeling better about my casting already, LOL. And when I get warmed up I'm around another 10 or 15 feet.
As far as I understand the distance you can cast (not that distance (D) is important in catching fish neccessarily, although we have a tool in our hands that can cast prodiguous distances if used properly, why not take advantage of it once and a while right?) is measured as:
D = Leader length + Plus fly line outside the rod tip length + length of rod to your reel
So if I had the belly of my Mastery Tri tip (which is about 65 feet) at the point where the rear taper is just outisde the rod tip I would have (floating line/long leader) 15 feet of leader, 65 feet of belly, plus about 13 feet to the reel on my 14 foot rod (say the bottom handle is about 1 foot) which equals = 93 feet.
At the same time, and I'm just using this as an example, if you look at the video of Kush doing the reverse snake roll on Dana's site it says in the last paragraph it says: "keep in mind here that he is picking up over 100 ft of line."
Now is that line to the reel, or is that line outside the rod tip?
Also, when they were doing the casting championships back in England which Steve Choate and Way Yin performed well in as we all know, does anyone know the criteria for how distance was gone about being measured there? Was it the above formula, or line outside the rod tip? Or was it distance cast from where the caster was standing?
I used to always get so pissed off at myself when I was casting and I was at the point where my rear taper is just getting to the point of just being outside my rod tip, but gosh, with the D= formula which I put up there, I'm not feeling so bad. I always think "well I only have 65 feet out," but with that extra 28 feet making it a 93 foot cast, according to this formula, I'm feeling better about my casting already, LOL. And when I get warmed up I'm around another 10 or 15 feet.