{"id":1203,"date":"2015-05-01T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:15:43","slug":"casting-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/casting-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we are casting our main fishing objective is to turn the fly-line over and to present the fly in front of a fish. Depending on the fishing situation we may wish to make a long cast as well. To achieve both of these aims we have to ensure sure that the fly-line is:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pulled\u00a0along a straight-line path that continues on to the target<\/li>\n<li>Always under tension by constantly accelerating the rod-tip to the launch point<\/li>\n<li>Launched at the point of maximum rod-tip speed<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0At sufficient speed to develop the energy that is required to reach the target<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the best techniques that\u00a0fulfils all of these needs for short to medium range casting distance is forearm movement followed by simultaneous wrist and forearm movement.<\/p>\n<p>The following diagram summarises the casting phases and also contains some comments that will be expanded on in the next post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casting-Objectives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1208\" src=\"http:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casting-Objectives.jpg\" alt=\"Casting-Objectives\" width=\"750\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casting-Objectives.jpg 750w, https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casting-Objectives-200x141.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Casting-Objectives-500x353.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we are casting our main fishing objective is to turn the fly-line over and to present the fly in front of a fish. Depending on the fishing situation we may wish to make a long cast as well. To achieve both of these aims we have to ensure sure that the fly-line is:- Pulled\u00a0along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}