"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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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?

No, you read it correctly. I presume, as you do, that if your backcast sends
the line out at 1o'clock, then your front cast will want to go out at about
7 o'clock, 8 o'clock if you can 'tweak' it up a bit. But apparently, others
disagree.

Its no suprise that this sounds strange to you, Jarmo, as the materials you
sent me were my primary source in assessing Charlie's ascertations. I didn't
disagree with him, as I am far from an expert in this, however I did not
completely feel comfortable agreeing, either. His point (which I will let
him expand on here shortly, I'm sure) is that the line will move away
perpendicular to whatever direction you stop the rod, and will load up when
it hits the end, regardless of what direction the following front cast sends
it. The frontcast direction is purely a function of where you stop your tip.
The *backcast* loads the rod, NOT the beginning of the frontcast. His point
(which is accepted, btw) is that we all do this horizontally: false cast
parallel to the bank before we release out over the water, perpendicular to
the direction of our false casts. The V-shaped cast is just a vertical
application of this 'around the corner' horizontal cast. Except that I
couldn't do it.

--riverman