Hi Graeme, apologies for the delay in responding, but my fellow casting tragic Phil Smith has been away in Tassie so we took the lie detector down to the casting pool today. In the hour we cast the trout distance 5 weight, the wind ranged from 13 km/hour to 14.8 km/hour and it was straight up our clacker. The best two casts in 4 x 3 minute segments were 40.8 and 41.2 metres and I measured a backcast release of 26.2 metres with my normal technique and 24.8 metres with my interpretation of the stopless cast. Now, I have to qualify the above with the caveat that my stopless cast technique ain’t flash so need to work on that. The best two deliveries with the stopless technique was 38.8 and 39.2 metres. Ditto the qualification. The conditions were perfect for my casting technique, enough wind carry the forward loop and straighten the line and leader, but not too strong to prevent the full extension on my backcast.Graeme H wrote:Hi John,
While you have the lie detector out, can you also measure a back-cast delivery with both types of "stop" please? Which throws further for you is the answer I'm after.
(Personally, I cast about as far on the back cast as I do on the front cast. My form is better on the back cast and I need to work on keeping things neater on the front cast.)
Cheers,
Graeme
I found the backcast release distances very interesting, I would have expected them to go a tad further but the percentage of turnover on both was not high with the leader and the end of the line crunched up. It could have been the breeze, but also the speed I was generating in the loop.
John