riverman Charlie and I were discussing the relationship between the
riverman direction of the line during the backcast in comparison to
riverman the frontcast. He says (as does pretty much everyone) that
riverman its irrelevant, as the line moves away from your rod
riverman perpendicular to whatever direction it was going when it
riverman stopped, with no loss of loading.

I'm not 100% sure of what you're trying to say, but in any case this
sounds very weird. Say you make your backcast at one o'clock (line
again, not rod), while wanting to make the frontcast at 10
o'clock. How are you going to get the rod loaded in the first place
during the forward cast? After the backcast the line will first go
up. If you start your forward cast directly from there, you can't get
the weight of the line against the rod. If you wait until the line is
at the right "level" it will no longer be straight but a puddle.

Or did I misunderstand this completely?

I've read a couple of books on casting, and I think that in those book
"pretty much everyone" thinks exactly the opposite. ;-)

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Jarmo Hurri

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