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Walter & Group....
Ernie French, a long experienced fly fishing guide, puts his opinion in clear language:
Once the loop starts to form the work is over. We can do nothing but follow the path of the line down with the tip to minimize dragging the loop open. Once line speed exceeds tip speed it doesn't matter what kind of stop you use. Seems to me if if you stop the rod you are giving up on some potential energy.
Ernie
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Bill Kiester weighs in with his engineer point of view:
I look at the stop used for a distance cast from a different perspective. I see the RSP as being dictated by the demands of forming the loop. The rod must reach RSP at a specific location relative to the trajectory of the oncoming line. As such this location is fixed regardless of how we get there.
So the question becomes what is the difference between a hard stop and a soft stop. With a hard stop maximum casting force is maintain until the point is reach such that the rod will straight (unload) at the required RSP location. With a soft stop the casting force is reduced prior to reaching that point. Therefore the tip path over which the given casting force is applied is reduced. In short what the caster attempts to do is maintain force until he/she runs out of arm. This demands utilizing of the shortest deceleration tip possible - the hard stop. To do other would be to reduce the total force applied to through the total cast.
Bill
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Gordy
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