07-03-2009, 05:20 AM
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I hardly qualify as an instructor but as I understand it one of the problems is tailing loops, which cause wind knots. Wind knots are not necessarily caused by wind but most often by poor casting. They happen when the fly, coming forward passes under the forward moving line and crosses it, wrapping the following leader and fly a single turn around the line. The cast simply throws a single overhand knot into the line or leader. It is caused most frequently by a slowing down of the rod during the stroke of the cast. Line starts moving rapidly and when it slows down it allows the path of the fly to fall below the tip of the rod instead of passing over it in a tight or wide loop. The solution is to make sure that on the casting stroke there is constant acceleration of rod and line right up to the point of turnover.Hope this helps a bit.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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I hardly qualify as an instructor but as I understand it one of the problems is tailing loops, which cause wind knots. Wind knots are not necessarily caused by wind but most often by poor casting. They happen when the fly, coming forward passes under the forward moving line and crosses it, wrapping the following leader and fly a single turn around the line. The cast simply throws a single overhand knot into the line or leader. It is caused most frequently by a slowing down of the rod during the stroke of the cast. Line starts moving rapidly and when it slows down it allows the path of the fly to fall below the tip of the rod instead of passing over it in a tight or wide loop. The solution is to make sure that on the casting stroke there is constant acceleration of rod and line right up to the point of turnover.Hope this helps a bit.[/size][/#008000][/font][font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000][size 3][/size][/#008000][/font]
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