The distance that people cast is often mentioned. It might be 13'/ 20'/ 35'/ 56'/ and so forth. My question is what do most of you measure?
The actual fly line cast or the line plus the length of the leader.
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Posts: 544 04/01/2009 19:21 |
I take a simple approach: I cast far enough to reach the fish. I figure that's far enough. And that would indeed count the leader.
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Posts: 595 04/01/2009 19:27 |
From the reel to the fly.
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Posts: 324 04/01/2009 19:38 |
gooseberryrods wrote: Just the length of Line ... the Leader/Tippet is variable, the Line Length is not. |
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Posts: 596 04/01/2009 19:48 |
If I see a rising trout at 40' and I'm using a 9' leader, do I make a 31' cast or a 40' cast? Of course I would make a 40' cast. As
CtKen pointed out, there are other methods used to measure casting distance. It wasn't so long ago I was measuring the line and leader from the rod tip
which now makes no sense to me whatsoever. Great question Oneculm. I wonder how tournament casts are measured?
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Posts: 95 04/01/2009 19:53 |
Tip of rod to the end of the line * Pi. That's about the only way I'm getting out to 56'.
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Posts: 274 04/01/2009 20:52 |
ACA uses from your feet to the fly
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Posts: 289 04/01/2009 21:02 |
Ray wrote: That's the standard way of measuring the length of a cast. It will tell you how close you can wade to a fish and actually reach him with a fly - makes sense to me. Besides I've seen guys who could "cast the whole fly line", but the fly only went 65 feet! Bill O. |
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Posts: 285 04/02/2009 08:41 |
I, like most on this board, usually just throw line at the fish, if the fly reaches the fish, we have cast far enough.
When, on those occasions where distance cast becomes important, such as in posting on the Fishing Bamboo Fly Rods topic one first estimates the distance from their feet to the fish, since most of us cast past the fish and pull back to lightly drop the fly in the feeding lane, we add an additional 10 feet. Then, since all casts are preceeded by at lkeast one false cast, the true distance the fly travels prior to dropping lightly on the water is from the farthest point behind us on the backcast to the farthes point beyond the fish and then back to the fish. This is how we are capable of making perfect 65 foot casts on small brook trout streams. |
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Posts: 2057 04/02/2009 16:55 Bamboo preacher |
Dave,
I have a measured casting range in my back yard. The distances were at one time clearly painted, but today are rather faded. I still know what the 20', 30', 45', 60', and 75' marks are. At each of those distances there is a 30" circle painted on the ground. On a good day, I can hit the first three! Distances are measured from a line, behind which I stand while practicing. Harry |
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Posts: 549 04/02/2009 18:07 |
O.K., Dave,
Sorry about the flippant response above. I've had a chance to read up on tournament casting and here's the result. This is quoted from a 1907 Rules and Regulations of the NASAC (National Association of Scientific Anglers Clubs) which was the governing body for tournament casting through WWII. Distance FlyFrom this, I take it that the distance should be measured, as Ray stated, from the feet to the fly itself, which would indeed include the length of the leader. |
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Posts: 294 04/02/2009 19:36 |
For FFF instructor testing, etc., it is foot to fly/target.
- David www.UpperMidwestFlyFishing.com - fly fishing in the Upper Midwest. Spring Creeks to Smallies to Steelhead. |
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