Determining loop SHAPE (NOT SIZE)

Walter & Group.........

Howdy Gordy

   As Joe Brooks told me years ago "STOP THE ROD"
  I have reached overload....

Thought process fly rods..... Deep

 

ol Al

Allen R. Crise

 

ol Al has reached sensory overload ..... all fuses blown !

Gordy

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Question from Scott Swartz (MCCI ... Atlanta Fly Fishing School) .  Scott is asking for information on exactly what is involved in determining, not the size, but the SHAPE of the loop.  We discussed theories at the School earlier this month, but did not come to a definite conclusion.

My take (and I can't prove it) is that the caster can form a small loop pointed at the top by a momentary upward and outward (toward the target) thrust of the rod at exactly the correct point in time.  My thought was that this may be performed immediately following RSP as the rod starts to go in to counterflex.  I'm not certain about that.  Then there is the question of whether there really is an aereal, "lift" when we do achieve that pointed loop (?????)

Gordy,

 

Deep thoughts is certainly an appropriate title for the recent flury of e-mails. I have found it facinating, informative, intreaging, and frustrating all at the same time. There have been moments I think I have "got it" and the next moment I'm dangeling by a thread. I've decided I need to just go fishing after all this input.

 

Would you have interest in posing the leading edge loop shape cause and effect question to the group that you, Peter and I played with at Atlanta Fly Fishing School? I would be very interested in learning more of what casuses the round vs. pointed vs. high pointed (airplane wing with lift effect) types of leading edges of loops. I thought I had a handle on it but cannot seem to reproduce my results.

 

Best,

Scott Swartz

 

Do any of you in the Group have a better answer than mine ? ...... Let's hear it !

 

Gordy