The last inch
EzGoing I hope you got the e-mails on the Double. Those notes were to big to post and kind of repetitive.
This is some good stuff in this tread.
The last inch of the rod tip travel is the direction the loop will follow.
If we point the rod tip at the last minute before the stop we stand good a chance to make the d-loop go where and how we want it.
Hooking behind the caster is common fault and can be been caused by a number of things.
But the cause is no stopping the rod tip in straight line.
If we start the back cast stoke off the horizontal and move the rod tip back in a straight flight path and stop it in the same path our loop will go straight.
There is an analogy comparing the back cast stroke to scratching a rod tip along a building.
As long as we can keep the rod tip on the building we will go in strait line.
But there comes a point when physical attributes of the caster will cause the rod tip to come off ( called compassing )the building and at this point we no longer have our strait line flight path.
So from the Analogy we know that the length of the backcast stroke is determined by where the flight path direction changes.
I make sure that the client understands that this will change with his casting position and you can lengthen the back cast by transferring your body weight back as well as your lower hand. This will stop you from reaching with the top hand at inappropriate time during the back cast stroke. (If you are a lower hand caster).
The same is true of top hand dominate casters but the flight path will be longer as you can delayed your compassing off the flight path by pointing the rod tip at predetermined position as you drift back. At this point the top hand becomes the dominant force in repositioning the rod. (oops we are told that we are not supposed to use the top hand).
To sum up.
So work on scribing a strait flight path for your back cast. This is one of the single most faults of the Spey cast. It is call a hook and the cause us not stopping in a straight line.
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