You don't need to know anything about casting to realize that "fishing straight into the teeth of the wind… without needing a lot of line speed" is a blatant contradiction.Dennis Pat wrote:Actually, I was curious with this quote,
“All those black rods were strapped to the top of people’s pickups in the parking lot, but I kept fishing straight into the teeth of the wind, because with bamboo you can load the rod without needing a lot of line speed.” http://midcurrent.com/gear/choosing-cane/
So it seems, besides the fun factor and other intangibles, the inherent qualities of cane makes it superior to graphite when casting into the wind?
cheers,
Dennis
We all know that throwing a ball some distance by hand requires a given amount of effort; when wind arises throwing that ball the same distance into the wind asks for much more effort. The reason is that against the wind we must give more speed to the ball to get to the same distance.
With a fly line we confront the same problem: in calm weather a given line speed will give us a given distance, if we cast against the wind we must increase the line speed proportionally to the speed of the wind. Just common sense. Something like "getting more line speed… without the need of getting more line speed" is just bullshit. Common sense again.
From another (rather simplistic) standpoint line speed comes from the energy we put into the rod. If a bamboo rod bends more with the same energy input from the caster it means exactly that: just that the bamboo rod is softer and it bends more with the same energy. Same energy into the line with both rods gives the same results.
A fly rod is not a bow. Why a serious publication like midcurrent keeps giving that kind of casting advice is beyond me.
P.S.
By the way, Bernd:
For the same casting stroke a softer rod stores more energy than a stiffer one. It doesn't change the fundamental aspect of this issue anyway.Again the additional part in the overall line speed that we achieve during straightening of the rod is much smaller.
Edit:
I have just taken a look to the full article and seen who the author is: to my knowledge he is a FFF CCI. Amazing.