{"id":1214,"date":"2015-06-07T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2015-06-07T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T10:22:35","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-fly-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/the-purpose-of-the-fly-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the Fly-rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to my friend Daniel le Breton reviewed this article before it was posted.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a client that I was guiding asked me &#8220;What is the purpose of a fly-rod&#8221; and it caused me to think of a good answer, which forms the basis of this post.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0may already appreciate that a fly-rod has many subtle characteristics that are &#8220;engineered&#8221;, through\u00a0design, to give a good response to\u00a0a general range of casting styles and\u00a0you may like to check the list below to see how this compares with your own thoughts on how a fly-rod assists in the casting process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To help the caster maintain a straight-line path through flexing: This may well be one of the most important and goes along with the next point.<\/li>\n<li>To help achieve a longer casting stroke through flexing: The stroke is depending on the caster, the tip path is longer with the flexible rod, so a better formulation would be \u201cto achieve a longer tip path through flexing, allowing providing more energy to the line over a longer distance\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>To provide a lever with low mass so that the rod has low momentum and can be easily rotated and stopped by the caster (unlike a broomstick!).<\/li>\n<li>To provide damping so that the fly-line is not shocked when it is accelerated and launched.<\/li>\n<li>To generate a higher line speed through the use of the spring of the rod.<\/li>\n<li>To allow and easier stop thanks to the way a flexible rod unloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well &#8211; how did you get on? I hope that some of the points were not so obvious and caused you to stop and think about how the fly-rod helps you to cast. More importantly, did you consider how your casting technique might benefit from knowledge of these characteristics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to my friend Daniel le Breton reviewed this article before it was posted. Recently, a client that I was guiding asked me &#8220;What is the purpose of a fly-rod&#8221; and it caused me to think of a good answer, which forms the basis of this post. You\u00a0may already appreciate that a fly-rod [&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-1214","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\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-fish-guide.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}