On Dec 30, 4:54 am, "Larry L" wrote:

The other thing I thought I at least ought to mention is the one thing
I found which prevented some problems in the float tubes, ( but was
not much good on the pontoon boat) was to point the fins straight down
when casting. This will at least reduce the swivelling, and combined
with the other tactics should practically prevent it.

It is worthwhile trying the following, and to make sure I had it right
I just went out and tried it again. Sit in a good easily swivelling
swivel chair, with your feet off the ground, and raise one arm fairly
rapidly above your head. nothing happens. Now do the same but move
your arm out to the side. The chair swivels immediately in the
opposite direction. If you move both arms rapidly out to each side at
once, the chair does not move.

As it is quite a while since I last used the tube, and I wanted to get
the "feel" back, so that I could describe it exactly to you, and make
sure I was not giving you any wrong info, I just tried sitting in a
very easily swivelling chair in my back yard, ( feet off the ground)
and doing a 90° change of direction cast. As long as the rod is
directly above me, the chair does not swivel. Once the cast is
completed, it is easy to swivel the chair to the new direction. If one
tries to swivel the chair while casting, the cast fails.

If the rod is tilted away from the body, the chair swivels
immediately. The more it is tilted, the more and faster the chair
swivels. If one also uses full body motion, the chair will swivel very
much indeed, uncontrollably so, ruining the cast completely. Allowing
the chair to swivel like this I could not get more than about fifty
feet, the cast felt nasty, and the line fell in a series of large and
untidy looking coils.

It is still not easy to do a really powerful distance cast from this
position, but it does work. From the grating in the middle, the yard
is just over eighty feet long in both directions, and I hit the wall
at the other end with no trouble at all on the straight casts, but
not even close when the chair swivelled. Also, as the vertical haul
distance is limited, I experimented with tilting the rod to the side
away from my body, and the vertical, and hauling out to the left side,
instead of straight down. With a little practice. ( I only had twenty
casts or so) one can compensate for the rod lean with the haul action,
the chair does not move,and one still attains good distance.

One may still swivel the upper body from the hips when changing
direction on the cast, the chair also does not swivel.

If one allows the whole body to twist, and moves the backside on the
chair, the chair once again swivels.

So, one can prevent the swivelling by avoiding any torque outside the
centre of the boat. If there is no leverage, then the boat will not
swivel.

Lastly, on a couple of the powerful deliveries, the chair rolled back
and inch or two ( It is on rollers) on the final delivery.

This is not a perfect simulation of a float tube of course, but I
think it´s pretty close.

TL
MC