On 28 Jun 2002 at 6:16, John Martinez wrote: > I'm reading Jason Borger's book on casting, "Nature of > Fly Casting".
Comments sofar? ;-) > In one of the early chapters he > discusses the amount of line that that is optimal for > overhead casting for a particular rod and line weight > and how to figure it out by trial and error. He also > refers to a book by Marc Brown, "Casting Angles" that > uses a mathematical formula to figure this out. Does > anyone out there in VFB land happen to know what this > formula is? Jerry Spector responded. If this is not the description you were looking for, let me know and I will dig up the Mac Brown book. It has been a while since I read Mac's book (not the easiest read<G>), and I cannot recal off-hand what his definition is. Cheers, Hans
