BobinMich,

Those illustrations look just like me, working the water up into a nice milky froth. (I hear that oxygenation of the water is good for the fish.)



In regard to positions of the rod while casting... If you stop at 12:00 (high noon) on your backcast it's called a steeplecast. The line will shoot nearly straight up overhead and return to a normal trajectory on the forward cast. Perfecly legal and has a name so it must be right. Depending on the type of cast you desire, you may change time-zones several times before landing the fly in front of a hungry bruiser. (I wonder what time it is when you roll cast?)

I would say, "Don't let the back-water lawyers tell you what's right and what's wrong." But a little advice can go a long way when added to all the other advice you've gotten and will get. Just don't get the idea that one fella is righter than all the others... Including and most especially me.

Tim