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Date: June 14, 2008 at 11:20:27
From: John Kelsey, [c-24-147-111-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net]
Subject: Some Basic Questions.... |
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Sean, Thanks for sending up the 550 grain line. I put it on the Heritage this AM and went down to Ober Park for about an hour or so to play around.
So now I have some basic questions, while I wait for my Rio video to show up.
1. I'm planning to practice with just the head out. Or should I have a bit of running line out as well. If so, loose ready to shoot or out past the rod tip?
2. I assume I should have a leader on with at least a hunk of yarn tied on the end. How long should the leader be? More or less.
3. Anchor point. In relation to my body, as I'm facing the water (I'm right handed)where should it be.
4. From looking at video clips on U-Tube, it looks like most of the head gets lifted and then brought back. where the rod lifts and as it sweeps back, it drops to anchor the line.
5. Should I be feeling the rod load as in a single hand conventional back cast, where I fell the line pulling the rod tip backwards as the d loop sweeps back past me? I'm not, although that may be because I had no leader or fly attached to the end of the line.
6. Any other basic mechanics questions relative to hand and arm motion I should be aware of? Or things like flick the end of a paint brush. Some of the video clips visually imply that the forward motion of the casting stroke stops quite high as the line unfurls and then the rod follows the line to the water after the line is fully extended.
7. It didn't take long to feel like a hero with some long overhand casts.... :-)
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