Line hand / rod hand balance

 Walter & Group....

 

 

From Jerry to his student:

 

Remember the word balance and teamwork between line hand and rod hand.  Similar to the long bow you shoot, the right hand has to match the left hand in power and timing application as you draw and shoot.  What do you think Gordy?

 

I am very delighted to see your progress, you have just gotten started my friend, and some of that 230 foot javelin throw you had as a youth will come to your aid. 

 

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Jerry,

 

I agree.  With repect to distance casting with the use of the haul,  I see great advantage in the haul motion of the line hand being a sort of mirror image of what is going on with the rod .  I see it as a matching of the line hand motion  with respect to timing as well as excursion.  To put it simply, LONG CAST/LONG HAUL....SHORT CAST/SHORT HAUL.

 

This is at variance with what has been taught by Lefty Kreh for years.  He wrote that a short fast haul at the end of the casting stroke was best.  Later communication with him, however, tells me that he's modifying his former position on that issue when considering distance casting.

 

It goes further than that, however.  If we elect to mirror image the timing as well, then we have, RAPID TIP SPEED/RAPID HAUL.  I'd add to that, that it appears to be more efficient to have the point of maximum acceleration of the haul come close to matching that of the rod.

 

Where you stop the haul with relation to the, "almost stop" of the rod hand while false casting is still in debate. Where you release the line with the line hand in relation to the "stop" of the rod hand is more important, according to Steve Rajeff.  Some feel that it should be very close to the time of the stop if not a split second afterward.  I don't have a firm answer to that question.

 

As I ponder these things, I wonder if we are really discussing some VARIABLES which will change with different casters and different casting situations.  If so, we may be drifting into elements of style.

 

Gordy