VGB wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:22 am …..Anyone that has tried to stab the gaps between their fingers with a knife or compass will have directly experienced the effects of this law.

Regards

Vince

Mumblypeg!!!
Damn, I’ve not thought of that game for 60 years now.
The idea will keep me smiling the rest of the day.
Thanks, Vince

Thank you, Merlin.
I appreciate your patience and insight.
George

When we simplify the rod as a spring, the softer rod stores more spring energy for the same load. Sorry in that last sentence I should have written “bend” not “load”. You are correct George. I believe that stored elastic energy would be the same between softer and stiffer rods under the same load. ...

Torsten wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:13 am When we simplify the rod as a spring, the softer rod stores more spring energy for the same load.

Hi Torsten
Can you explain why this is?

Thanks
George

Otherwise we would be using softer rods that load more, instead of pokers in the WCs. Hi Paul Are you using “load” when you mean “bend”? When a given mass is moved by a given force by two levers of the same length but different stiffness isn’t the load the same??? Does a softer rod under load hold ...

From Dirk’s original description (2nd link). A composite of an Aitor cast (a different one?). IMG_4176.jpeg In the video I recall, however, Aitor was facing to the right, using an orange line, the backcast was near vertical and forward cast near horizontal. The appearance was gravity fed line into t...

I’ll have to think about that but I don’t see why it has to match gravity. The line comes around the corner and it’s all subject to gravity. Cheers, Paul Hi Paul. The physics behind the behavior of waypoints is well above me. This could get embarrassing but here is how I envision it. Please sort me...

Aitor’s video of avoiding the tail (or depending on definitions, extreme dangling end) was possible because he allowed the line to fall into place, creating a waypoint. Cheers, Paul Another interesting topic. Aren’t waypoints created by both a change in direction and continued acceleration? In Aito...

I should qualify the above before Lasse sets me straight. With proper acceleration and careful power application a poor line position can be overcome. I recall Aitor’s video of avoiding a tail with a steeple cast or easterncasters video of throwing laser straight fly legs with a roll cast. For most ...

I suspect 99% of the guys casting a fly rod have no concept of the need to get the line ‘positioned right’, nor even what ‘right’ entails. It is just not emphasized (at least from what I’ve seen/read) as an essential concept. It seems, rather, that instruction is aimed at making it happen indirectly...