From: "Mike Connor"

George´s description of the "overhand lob" also suggests that a fair weight
was being used to cast

Yes. He had the float, some added weight, plus the bait, a nightcrawler.
Alltogether they put a substancial bend in the rod when casting and retrieving,
so I would say they totalled a fair amount of weight. The actual cast was a
slow lob that seemed to require very little effort.

George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller