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Dear listers,
It's winter as y'all well know and I have way too much time on my hands. While reviewing all known to me spey casting videos I was puzzled by the video #24 on the Dana's web site, i.e, "The beautiful longline casting of Mitsuru Kaneko". If one watches closely, it seems obvious that his rod is a pretty slow one since after the power stroke the rod tips keeps going down quite a bit. The puzzling part is that the spey line flies straight out in a beautiful tight loop without a hint of a wave in it. How coud this happen? More importantly, is a there an established repationship between the rod dampening and the cleanliness (spell?) of the cast? Would it be fair to say that after the power stroke one's spey rod does not affect the cast at all?
Thank you.
It's winter as y'all well know and I have way too much time on my hands. While reviewing all known to me spey casting videos I was puzzled by the video #24 on the Dana's web site, i.e, "The beautiful longline casting of Mitsuru Kaneko". If one watches closely, it seems obvious that his rod is a pretty slow one since after the power stroke the rod tips keeps going down quite a bit. The puzzling part is that the spey line flies straight out in a beautiful tight loop without a hint of a wave in it. How coud this happen? More importantly, is a there an established repationship between the rod dampening and the cleanliness (spell?) of the cast? Would it be fair to say that after the power stroke one's spey rod does not affect the cast at all?
Thank you.