Got 86%. Missed #7. Makes sense to turn and look at what your line is doing behind you.
Got 86%. Missed #7. Makes sense to turn and look at what your line is doing behind you.
They're just fish, right? Right?
100% which fits right in with my "Do as I say, not as I do" teaching style.
I got 86%, but I always did test well without studying.
And my casting still looks like someone who scored 86% on a trivia quiz.
Lousy caster + 100% on the test = test of questionable value
I scored 57% correct. Marco...between the two of us, we scored 100%! Lets celebrate by drinking heavily. ;o)
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
Originally Posted by Lew
This is the best option given the other choices. But it is not a perfect method to track the backcast.
If you turn as you backcast, you rotate your body. When you rotate your body during the back cast you introduce a convex rod tip path on the backcast. When you do the forward cast, you need to rotate back forward, and this retraces the convex path.
Since the fly line goes where the rod tip goes, for a right handed caster, the fly line will curve slightly to the left. So turning to look at the backcast, introduces a tracking error from the SLP you want for the rod tip.
To minimize this tracking error, stand with more of a closed stance facing the right side, rather than an open stance facing the direction of the cast.
Regards,
Silver
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"..........Szent-Gyorgy
I got 100%, what do I win?
"Tap her light and she'll always be fresh"
You get a smiley!
Regards,
Silver
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"..........Szent-Gyorgy
Suddenly, I don't feel so bad with an honest 86%. I'm in some good company too who seem to think that in order to get 100% you had to get one question wrong.
http://www.sexyloops.co.uk/cgi-bin/t...3;t=13959;st=0
Curious. Never considered myself a classic caster but I get regularly complimented on form and results. A 43% test score attests to the former and I guess folks just being nice probably accounts for the later. My normal casting form is to bring the rod back at a 45 degree angle (maybe a little steeper) except for some roll casts. I have several CCI and MCI friends who tell me "if it ain't broke don't fix it" so I'll live with what I do. Interesting exercise though.
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