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What happens if you start a cast with slack line?
You will cause a jerk in the line when it eventually tightens and will be unable to make the cast correctly. Note that because an overhead or straight line cast is actually two casts, (a forward cast plus a back cast) continuing with the forward cast if the back cast has not straightened also causes a jerk the results in untidiness or slack line in the delivery.
Why does the rod have to accelerate smoothly?
Answer: If not the rod will jerk, the will line will not remain straight and tight and the cast will be less than perfect. The rod must be pulling line (accelerating) throughout a cast. The cast stops when the rod movement stops for instance with the stop and pause at the end of the back cast.
What is a stop?
A stop is one of those rare physical states that is described perfectly, it is a stop. Not a slow down, not an over hard snap followed by vibration of the rod tip, a stop is just a dead stop. By relaxing the grip immediately after the stop the angler will reduce any vibration in the rod and prevent shock waves traveling down the line.
If you cast only with your wrist or by breaking your wrist excessively will the line travel in straight or not?
Answer: Wrists make circular movements and so using your wrist too much means that the rod tip path is curved, it is therefore impossible for the line to travel straight with a narrow loop, it will produce a wide curved loop. If at the same time the back cast the rod is stopped after 12:00 the tip will be heading towards earth and therefore the line will be sent downwards. See Fig 2 for the result of excessive wrist movement and arm movement and note that the rod tip would be going downwards when it stopped and therefore according to rule 3 the line will project downwards. In this situation the line does not fall, instead it is thrown to the ground – very bad technique but all too common I'm afraid!


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