Stupid question about casting distance.....

[dudemanspecial]

When you say "30 foot cast", are you referring to:

1. The distance from where your feet are planted to where the fly lands?

2. The the distance from the rod tip to where the fly lands?

3. The amount of fly line you cast without factoring the rod and leader length?

4. Some other combination?

I always assumed its #1 where the sum of the rod length, fly line and leader = overall distance......but do others see it differently?

 

[wildtrout2]

I appreciate your honesty in the thread title. I'd have to say #2 though.

 

[krayfish2]

I've usually gone by description #1

 

[dudemanspecial]

I should have made a poll.....

 

[troutbert]

#1. I've never been in a casting competition, but surely they measure the distance of the cast from where the competitors are standing, right?

 

[TimMurphy]

Dear dudemanspecial,

I'm inclined to agree with wildtrout2 and go with choice 2. In the olden days when fishing with a WF line when lines were 90ft long and the head section was 40 feet or so in length counting the front and rear tapers if you got 10 feet of running line out of the rod tip and were using a 9-foot leader you were landing the fly approximately 60 feet out.

I just checked 2 fly lines I have that haven't been placed on reels yet. Both are WF7 floating lines, one is a major brand "Bass" line and the other is a major brand "Smallmouth bass" line. On one the head length is 38 feet in keeping with was once standard, and on the other the head length is 27 feet. It's much harder to judge distance anymore by the feel of the fly line diameter in your hand.

Regards,

Tim Murphy

 

[Swattie87]

#1. I've never been in a casting competition, but surely they measure the distance of the cast from where the competitors are standing, right?

I thought “comp” anglers didn’t use fly lines. 😜

 

[Bamboozle]

If I was chucking a javelin, throwing a ball or anything else it would be #1 so I don't see any reason I should use a different metric when fly casting.

When I say "30 foot cast" that means #1.

BTW - That's how it's done in distance casting championships.

 

[redietz]

#1. I've never been in a casting competition, but surely they measure the distance of the cast from where the competitors are standing, right?

Correct.

 

[BrookieChaser]

#2

 

[dudemanspecial]

Maybe it wasn't a stupid question after all.

 

[wildtrout2]

My post was in jest. I believe the amount of line that you can put on the water is how a cast should be measured. That would be the amount of line from the tip to the fly. jmo

 

[dudemanspecial]

My post was in jest. I believe the amount of line that you can put on the water is how a cast should be measured. That would be the amount of line from the tip to the fly. jmo

I know...I actually meant that I felt stupid asking because I have been doing this long enough that I figured I should know this already. Quite a disparity in the answers so far though.