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I am learning to cast in something of a vaccuum down here. On a wide open river with lots of room, I can bang out a nice switch cast, but the head is so far back it is basically a waterhauled back cast and I know that isn't exactly kosher.
Yesterday and the day before I intentionally put my back up against the wall, and I figured out a cast I'm sure there must be a name for. It seems easiest to do when switching sides, from line going away upstream to a downstream cast, or from line dangling downstream to an upstream cast.
Basically I just make a short roll cast which aerializes some of the line, then before it has landed I come up and back again and make a forward cast, which if I do it right lifts off right as the first half-roll touches the water and it zings out there. In the air the line looks like a spiral going away from my position- is this the snake roll?
Zach
Yesterday and the day before I intentionally put my back up against the wall, and I figured out a cast I'm sure there must be a name for. It seems easiest to do when switching sides, from line going away upstream to a downstream cast, or from line dangling downstream to an upstream cast.
Basically I just make a short roll cast which aerializes some of the line, then before it has landed I come up and back again and make a forward cast, which if I do it right lifts off right as the first half-roll touches the water and it zings out there. In the air the line looks like a spiral going away from my position- is this the snake roll?
Zach