Picture of Ally's, " climbing loop"

Still not knowing exactly what a rising loop is I got my wife to take a couple of snaps of a cast. I can make these loops all day long – these are both from the same cast – but I don’t know if they are rising. The back cast was practically horizontal and I could change the loop shape between that shown to an even shape “circular?” and to a down pointed loop depending on how the energy was transferred.

Best wishes,

Ally Gowans

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Ally .... The pictures do suggest a climbing loop and your loop does seem to be at least somewhat pointed at the top .... I daresay this would be more obvious if the picture had been taken perpendicular to the fly line .... which wasn't possible since you were casting from the shore.

From still pics, however, I cannot tell if both your back cast and forward cast were aimed so as to be horizontal (parallel with the water / ground.) and each 180 degrees from the other.

I consider a climbing loop to be one which appears to defy gravity by rising from the horizontal trajectory in which it had been aimed.

I am including your pictures as attachments.

Can you tell us what you did differently between forming the blunt nose semicircular loop and the pointed-at-the-top loop ?

Gordy

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