"riverman" wrote in message
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SNIP
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



Not true. A good caster under normal circumstances will attempt to remove
any load from the rod at all on the backcast, ( Drifting!). The forward
stroke ( unless you are doing pre-loading tricks, with shooting heads etc),
is all that loads the rod.

In order to get the line to go where you want it to, you merely need to move
the rod tip in that direction. No matter what direction your back cast is,
the main purpose is to get the line stretched out from the rod tip in a
straight line, with no slack. This also works if you cast the line straight
up. The forward motion is more of a thrust and flick, than in a "normal"
back/forward cast in the horizontal plane.

TL
MC