Mike That is a tailing loop problem, possibly combined with other
Mike faults.

Now there's an encouraging opening. :-)

So, since I don't have tailing loops, I have two theories of what
happens during my normal casting:

1. I tilt the plane during the backcast to avoid the collision of the
line with itself. Someone referred to this already above: having a
different plane of cast for the forward and backward casts. Think
about the following situation: tilted rod, low forward cast
(inclined towards water/ground), followed by a fairly low backward
cast (for example, horizontal), that is, too much wrist or
something similar on the backcast. In this case the backward cast
would not lift the line above the rod tip. Looking from the side,
the cast would create a tailing loop, with the line crossing itself
somewhere fairly close behind the rod tip. But the line would not
tangle with itself, if I raise the tip to a vertical position after
the backcast. The line traveling backwards would be in a different
plane than the line traveling forward. I think this is likely the
thing that's happening.

2. I am in fact casting pendulum casts backwards. I don't think this
is very likely, since I can cast a pendulum cast, and it's
different.

I have a question to you, Mike. (It's actually a variant of the one I
posed to Jack above.) Is it more difficult to keep the line above the
rod tip in a perfectly vertical cast with a longer line? If so, why?
Is it just that the line has more time to drop below its initial
level. If not, what is required of the cast?

I will starting doing the exercises (a.k.a. back to the drawing board)
once the thermometer rises above the freezing poing again. Could be in
a couple of days, could take 4 months. Ah yes, the weather forecast
predicts +2C for tomorrow, with sleet and a wind of 16 m/s. :-)

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Jarmo Hurri

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