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Distance casting....
At a casting tournament in Chicago last year, Steve Rajeff belted out a cast of 268 feet with a 2-hander, and 197 feet with a 1 hander "despite unfavorable wind conditions". (The rod lengths and line weights are not specified, but I believe they use a somewhat standardized shooting head not more than 31 feet, and no more than 10-weight head.) Remember, these rods, lines and reels are for distance casting.
I don't think this is the "official record", however.
BobK
At a casting tournament in Chicago last year, Steve Rajeff belted out a cast of 268 feet with a 2-hander, and 197 feet with a 1 hander "despite unfavorable wind conditions". (The rod lengths and line weights are not specified, but I believe they use a somewhat standardized shooting head not more than 31 feet, and no more than 10-weight head.) Remember, these rods, lines and reels are for distance casting.
I don't think this is the "official record", however.
BobK
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Details on distance games and tackle used can be seen on the American Casting Association website.
Keep in mind that the 2-hand distance record that Steve Rajeff holds is overhead casting. Last summer Steve Choate Spey cast 50 yards to win the Musto competition in the UK. I know that Steve Choate and others in non-competition conditions have cast farther than that as well. In 1895 Alexander Grant switch cast 65 yards in a competition in Scotland--no line was shot. Grant lifted and Spey cast the entire length of line. The closest we've come to matching Grant is Derek Brown's 62 yard cast in June 1996--again, without shooting line. To my knowledge to this day Grant's record stands.
Details on distance games and tackle used can be seen on the American Casting Association website.
Keep in mind that the 2-hand distance record that Steve Rajeff holds is overhead casting. Last summer Steve Choate Spey cast 50 yards to win the Musto competition in the UK. I know that Steve Choate and others in non-competition conditions have cast farther than that as well. In 1895 Alexander Grant switch cast 65 yards in a competition in Scotland--no line was shot. Grant lifted and Spey cast the entire length of line. The closest we've come to matching Grant is Derek Brown's 62 yard cast in June 1996--again, without shooting line. To my knowledge to this day Grant's record stands.
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Steve Rajeff...
... cast 296 feet in the ACA National Championships in Toronto in 1998, if I remember right. That distance was measured AFTER the line and fly stopped sliding downhill! This is the current ACA record. Rene` Gillibert tied Steve's Angler's Fly Distance (10wt rod/300gr. head) record at 190 feet this last August in Chicago.
... cast 296 feet in the ACA National Championships in Toronto in 1998, if I remember right. That distance was measured AFTER the line and fly stopped sliding downhill! This is the current ACA record. Rene` Gillibert tied Steve's Angler's Fly Distance (10wt rod/300gr. head) record at 190 feet this last August in Chicago.
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