
Today I was practicing my distance casting in, what seemed to me, very difficult conditions. Nobody was achieving very good distances.
The grass we were casting on was a bit high. I was ticking a lot and that ruined every cast.
Someone mentioned I was waiting to long. I do have a tendency to wait till the line is fully stretched. The hanging of the bottom leg promoted ticking.
I fixed some things and came to the following conclusion:
Moving your rod in the opposite direction while the line is still unrolling (some people will call this creep), will remove the sack from the bottom leg of the loop. This because the top leg is still unrolling and pulling the bottom leg, and I am also pulling the bottom leg with the rod. Pulling from two sides will straighten it.
No doubt this topic has already been discussed somewhere, but I have not seen it yet.
What do you think. Should you pull the bottom leg to keep it straight?
Cheers, Bart