A breath of fresh air in the stench of super-expert templates

Tack Michael. Det är det bästa jag någonsin sett under alla år (24) som jag har tränat flugkast. Vadhar du för kamera när du filmar? Tack för att du textar då jag är dålig på det engelska språket.

Well I started from E1 after your reply. Can you show/explain what exactly is this loop that is a bad thing or do you explain it somewhere and I've missed it? Overhead casting is bad and everyone should use cool cast and wave spey? Is scandi spey or underhand cast ok? Of course I'll be trying the cool cast tomorrow, wave spey I've been using for few years, saw some video where Klaus Frimor does it. Or is it the fact that when you lift the line for most spey casts you sort of have to get the timing right to make it work. If that, then OPST and their continuous tension skagit cast is already there and Byske cast has been around forever, just reset it as many times you need and cast it out.

Iconoclast! Please keep these disruptive videos coming - lots to think about!

Could you look at as adding Tension and releasing tension ?

Putting the line on the rod is completely unnecessary. It's down to physics, tighter loops are more efficient at penetrating the air at speed.

I do not understand why you are slandering casting instructors and present the concept of loop as a complicated and an obscure phenomenon that nobody can explain. Here is a very fundamental and simple explanation: In fly fishing, the lure (the fly) is practically weightless with a lot of drag potential, so one cannot effectively and instantly transfer enough energy to the fly to throw it to a long distance. The next best thing is to attach a considerable mass to that weightless fly and energize the big mass. This way the fly can piggyback to the energized, moving mass and can go to a distance. However, we also want certain style of arrival at a distance. We do not want locomoting mass to crash into the water and make a big splash. Afterall, we are fishing, and we wouldn't want the fish to run away from the fly. One way to perform smooth landing upon arrival is for locomoting mass to gradually loose its mass/energy on the way. At the end, only fly arrives at the destination with little energy and makes a smooth landing. In fly fishing this gradual reduction in mass/energy is made possible by implementing the locomoting mass as a long (usually 30ft) supple line. For simplicity let's imagine we are not shooting any line but just casting the 30ft head (the locomoting mass) and the fly. With the rod we are transferring energy to this 30ft long mass. The mass can even be piled up on the ground and we can catapult it. However, in that case, we would transfer only the energy generated by our arm during catapulting and most of that energy would be wasted making the pile (locomoting mass) airborne. If we start with the line already in the air going in the opposite direction, we can use the energy of the line and our arm together to load the rod (store the energy first in the rod) and transfer this total to the line to send it in the forward direction. This is the reason we backcast first. However, this is not that important. That is, whether we start with a pile on the ground or perfectly aligned line in the air, the idea is the same: We will energize the mass (line) with the rod and as soon as we stop the rod, the portion of the line attached to the tip of the rod will stop as well. However, since the rest of the line is in motion, the tip stopping will cause a protrusion. By controlling where and how you stop the tip, you can control the shape of this protrusion. But, whatever its shape is, this protrusion has two "legs", one is attached to the tip of the rod, the other is attached to the fly. The leg attached to the tip is pulling to stop the line, the leg attached to the fly is free and moving. As the tip stops more line, the locomoting mass and its energy get less and less until there is no forward movement and the whole thing collapses. (casting complete.) At the completion of casting, (just before collapse) we want the line to be straight and the fly to be the furthest out with the least amount of effort. This is possible by minimizing the fight against the gravity and the air drag. That is the reason we want the protrusion to be a tight horizontal looplike shape. The wider the loop (or more irregular the protrusion) the higher the forward-facing area so higher the drag. The more upward or less horizontal the loop, the more fight against the gravity. Both will result in shorter distances, or require more energy to achieve the same distance. So tight horizontal loop is a good thing. And it is achieved by stopping rod in a certain way.

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I don't understand your hang-up with loops or stopping the rod. Seems to me you were stopping the rod and forming loops yourself as it is difficult not to do when fly casting. How do you NOT stop the rod? Stopping the rod does not have to be the exaggerated stop you showed. No matter how you do it you are forming a loop with every cast, forward or back, good or bad. You did a lot of talking but not much showing so I never really got to understand just what your big problem with conventional casting instruction was other than the vague loops and stopping the rod inferences. I enjoyed viewing your videos more for amusement than education