Charlie At the SJ, Myron was saying that the forward cast *had* to
Charlie mirror the backcast, i.e. if you wanted your forward cast to
Charlie go up your backcast had to go down (the discussion started
Charlie with talking about hitting the water on the backcast).

Ah, yes, I see now. But this is very different from the direction
being "irrelevant".

Charlie The front cast and back cast do not have to mirror each
Charlie other. As long as the tip of the line is moving when you
Charlie start the cast you (or at least Leftyg) can make the cast
Charlie go pretty much any direction you want.

At least the couple of inches of line closest to the rod tip, for a
second or two... ;-)

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