Hi Merlin, if we take a 7WT line for example then yes.

Cheers, Paul

Hi Gary,

Can’t you do them all with a rigid rod?

Cheers, Paul

That’s just as well Rickard because now you are one of those outstanding casters!!

Got another bottle.

Well yes and no. My teaching has changed a lot since the App. While my first lesson or two has always been about loop control and namely short line loop control, particularly after Lee introduced his Triangle Method, it’s really been the past 5 years that I’ve overhauled my approach, and I’m very th...

Vinny wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:41 pm I never thought so much thought went into this. My adjustments are based on the way my loops look. I really am a “simple man”

Even the simple things can be made to be very complex.

the stiffer rod has a larger MOI and needs more energy to follow a given input, and that one of the reasons why one gets a larger tip speed and a larger elastic energy for such rod. Hi Merlin, the stiffer rod feels “lighter” when casting and can be rotated quicker. I assume this is because torque a...

Ooh. You’d have to standardise the drills and exercises and then examine someone’s ability to explain them. Then it becomes rather easy. Right now it’s rather difficult and all over the place. Quite unnecessarily IMO. The reason it’s difficult is because there is no map. This makes assessment diffic...

That’s what I initially thought too, George. But then Torsten said something different. So I looked up PE and found it’s half the spring constant multiplied by the square of deflection. Something I probably knew 40 years ago but have long since forgotten. And then Daniel gave an opposite example. I’...

For me it’s very straightforward, Vince. The first thing to learn is to cast loops. Not loops with 30’ of flyline. But just with the leader, with 1’ of flyline, 2’ etc etc up to whatever it can be. They can play with loops that are tight, open, not straightening, falling to the ground. Loops initiat...