I wonder if anyone can offer any advice?

I can cast a full line on the flat in a field, but when I go to our local reservoir I struggle when I have to cast with a high bank behind me.

I have tried stopping earlier, but I am so concious of allowing the line to drop, that I start my forward cast to early ad end up with tailing loops.

Any advice accpted,

Andy

Hi bud
not sure if it is the only way, however, i find, turning round, and looking up the bank and casting as if i am trying to cast up the slope helps, hard to describe, you want tor back cast instead of being horrizontal to be closer to 45 degrees from the horizontal....
the final stroke can then be directed towards the water and you can get some turnover. weight forward lines help too, snowbee XS are awesome!
hope this helps cheers zimtrout

Hi Zimtrout,

You are not the first person to suggest this, sounds like a good idea, I will try this out at the weekend.

andy

You can roll cast from dam walls too of course. You can get good distance by double hauling the roll - just as you would an overhead cast.

Malcolm

Quite simply, in that circumstance you will have to sacrifice distance.

In an overhead cast, if there is a high bank behind, your backcast must be high. Your forward cast has therefore to be aimed low (ideally 180 degrees between the two), so you are tilting the whole cast as you would when casting into a wind and altering your trajectory. If you don't alter the trajectory you will get tailing loops as you have found.

Alex
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Teanau,

Thank for your comments.

My problem is if I cast higher on the back stroke and lower on the foward stroke then I am allways going to catch the water on the forward stroke.

The other guys fishing say Clatworthy don't seem to catch the bank, so it must be something I am doing.

Andy

If that is the case, then it sounds to me like you must be dropping your rod tip on the back cast. It is a very common casting error, chiefly caused by using too much wrist break. Assuming you cast with the thumb on top, try to ensure your thumb is pretty much vertical at the stop on the back cast. That should help.

It is very difficult to diagnose casting faults (assuming you have one) from words alone. If I were you I would have a one or two hour lesson with a local casting instructor. Irrespective of the fact that you can put out a full line in ideal conditions, there is always room to improve.

Alex

Cheers Alex,

Funnily enough, I am having that dialogue mate.

Many thanks for your comments.

Andy

Any time Andy. Only too glad to be of assistance.

Alex
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could try making the stop on the back cast sooner also, on the way up as it were, technically if the rod tip is rising when you stop the line should rise at the same trajectory,
if you stop with the rod still in front of you it shoots up like stink, try making the stop as soon as you can, or before the leader fully leaves the water,
if it goes up at that angle though, it will come back at the same angle shortening that cast.