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Date: February 06, 2007 at 11:25:56
From: ken, [pool-70-20-4-145.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: Rod tuning methods


Of course that works.

Shooting heads cast quite easily.

You could use lead weights on the running line or even mono that are matched to a line weight and that would also work.

The result would give you real insight to the loads that make a rod come to life. Those results will be a big surprise because of their wide range in loading the rod but they would not be exactly transferable.

A full fly line does not cast the same as a shooting head or a weight.

Similar in that the rod loads and casts the weight of the line but not the same in that the diameter of the line after the head is so small and has so little friction that it alters the profile of the cast.

A 3/4 oz lead weight on mono will cast further than a 3/4 oz shooting head on a running line will because the weight is concentrated. It is basically a spinning or casting rod set up.
With a full line the cast will be even shorter.

At that point the whole thing becomes understandable.

If you use a 3/4 oz full line on a rod that it will flex to the max with the weight alone and you will get a good distance cast.

If it does not then you have to compensate by using high line speed and gymnastics to increase the working weight of the line artificially through velocity (high speed light weight bullet)

This is what has become accepted practice in modern high line speed casting.
The rods have great latitude with weights that they will cast well but only in amounts that will load them and less range of flexibility (none) in weights that are less than what will load them.

When a rod is underlined, which has become normal modern practise, then the rod will not cast a normal load because it does not have one to flex the rod so the load must be artificially added to to the rod by increased power from the caster. That popwer is what loads the rod not the line by itself. This is fine for tournament casting but very dysfunctional for fishing in normal conditions and especially difficult with flies that are not compact (jigs) or so small as to be non-existent. (Nymphs and dry flies)

The weight of the line has to carry a fly line speed cannot do it - because...

Larger flies and normal salt water flies that match the larger baitfish overcome the speed of the line like a parachute and stop the high line speed immediately.
There is no mass to carry the fly out there and so the resistance dissapates the speed of the line and stops it dead. Add wind even a light wind of 10 to 15 knots and you are throwing a ping pong ball that has no mass into a resistant force which stops it dead in flight in normal fishing situations.

The cast dies in flight.

High line speed is a theory which is useless in the real world of fishing except in tournament casting situations or conditions of controlled environments.

The dependence of the industry on that dysfunctional casting theory has caused droves of potential fly fishermen to abandon fly casting and fly fishing because it is to hard to do.

It is perhaps the stupidest casting practice ever developed to initiate beginner fly fishermen into the joys of fly fishing as it stops them from ever learning how to fish.

They have to become journeyman tournament casters before they can have the casting freedom to simply enjoy fishing.
It is nuts.

Underling and high line speed casting does not help anyone cast or fish easily.

Traditional casting with balanced rods and heavy enough lines lines does.
Right out of the box.

It is helpful not a hurdle to overcome.

Come to a rod tune up and cast a balance outfit for yourself and the truth of the traditional approach becomes obvious not theoretical, jabberwocky-ish alice in wonderland, gobbledygook.

Casting is grass roots not trickledown.
The industry knows nothing except how to sell spin.


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