ML, you are absolutely right about most fish caught with 40 ft casts, or less.
Now tell the rest of the story.
In a stream with no room for a decent back cast, or in a stand of willows or brush on your pond, you execute a �rollcast�.
Tell us how to do that without being technical.
You want to know why ML said 40 ft instead of 25?
You are casting the fly line and not the fly. A conventional wt forward line has a 30 ft �belly�, which is a larger and heavier portion of the line that you are casting � the remaining 10ft or so being a �running line�.
Betcha you cast more than 40 ft for a bone, red, or a striped bass with a 40 mph tail wind.
Explain how to do a decent backcast into the wind without being technical?
But who wants to know?
george
