Yes, but I don't see the point of that question. The original question was about casting into a head wind. Standing on a boat moving at running speed is not "casting into a headwind" in the same way that running and casting is not "casting into a headwind". It's the behaviour of ...

The piles of slack will be at the caster's feet, not at the leader. (Just as if the person on the shore was walking towards the fish and failed to stop after the cast.)

So when Formula 1 teams spend millions on wind tunnel experiments they're wasting there time because the car's not actually moving :???: . That's essentially what you're saying. They are testing the aerodynamics of the car. That's not a waste of time, given their whole existance is not a waste of t...

This is the bizarre logic you get without a suitable frame of reference - what's his tip speed in the backcast then? It doesn't matter as long as it accelerates the line smoothly enough to extend the line behind him with tension throughout the back cast. The frame of reference is still the fly's sp...

... Or let me put it this way:

The bloke casting from a boat moving 50m/h on a calm day has simply added 50m/h to his rod tip speed when compared to a bloke on the shore casting in exactly the same manner.

Neither caster is facing a headwind, but one has a higher line speed.

Cheers,
Graeme

Wow. 9 pages and no conclusion yet. As far as I can see, casting from a boat moving at 50m/h on a calm day is in no way comparable to casting into a 50m/h headwind from a stationary position. Turning a fly over at the end of a cast on a calm day is much easier than turning that same fly over in a st...

Both answers above are examples of what happens with most of us: we concentrate on learning the things we believe are the key details of a lesson. That's fine, and a good way to learn, but as inexperienced students, we can easily misconstrue what is actually a key detail . We focus on details that m...

I was expecting sales to be directly proportional with quantity of fish caught. I would expect the number of flies sold to be proportional to the number of flies lost (i.e replacing flies = increased sales). Not being a freshwater fisherman myself, is it safe to presume many dry flies are lost in f...

I would define it as a weighted fly line designed to be connected to a running line with a loop in a manner that allows swapping for another shooting head without the need to replace the running line. Without the ability to swap, it's not a shooting head. For me, an "integrated shooting head&qu...

I had an episode of it last year. My physiotherapist stopped me casting for several weeks, applied ice and ultrasound three times a week and emptied my wallet … During this time, I taught myself to cast left-handed. That was the silver lining of tendonitis. I altered the grip dimensions on all my he...