What is a “high and hot” pickup? I am not familiar with this frase. Cheers, Bart It’s a term/phrase used (coined?) by Chuck Easterling, MCI with c to a good pickup for distance casts. The phrase was repeated to me by a. Irene who took a class from him. Thanks. So is it like the pickups we are doing...

What is a “high and hot” pickup?
I am not familiar with this frase.

Cheers, Bart

Thanks Lasse.
Amazing casting!
I hope he didn’t retire from comp casting.

Cheers, Bart

A big cast indeed. I think it was in Denver, so at some altitude.

Cheers, Bart

Hi John, When casting for distance I am focused on the use of my wrist. I have a couple of key indicators to get me in the zone quickly in a competition. The use of my wrist is one of them. I can separate my good casting from my bad easily. With my good casting I feel constant tension. My rod tends ...

Hi there. I did not follow the complete discussion, but wanted to reply on Bernd’s question. It is no more than how things happen in my head. When learning the 170 style, the wrist was an important part. I always believed the wrist was the join with which you can generate the fastest rotation. When ...

Hi Paul, Just wondering. Was there a point in time when you decided to learn grip shifting? I was not even aware that I was doing it, before the subject was first mentioned. I am sure I would find it impossible to teach this with success. Did you ever have a student who could not do this and learned...

Hi Paul, Yes, those numbers sound reasonable indeed. I did spend a lot of time improving the speed in my backcast, which resulted in a higher max carry. For max distance, no matter how high my line speed, I always have to carry about the same distance. There seems to be a small window between a grea...

How does shooting in work for you? Do you lose tension like Paul does? Cheers B I have experimented with shooting line in the final backcast, but got very inconsistent results. Not sure if the main problem was tension. It was probably one of the problems. What I remember is I found it very difficul...

For me it’s quite precise. It’s when the end of the head is positioned at the very top of the loop and the initial loop is all formed by running line. Cheers, Paul Same for me. Strange thing is that for me that’s not around 90ft, but around 86/87ft. I wonder if people are converting 27m to 90ft. Th...