500fps Fly Cast – a1 (2 versions)
Here are the next two hi-res, 500fps fly casting videos (sequence a1 this time) from my friend and physicist, Grunde Løvoll. These particular videos were used to generate some of the data for 2006 article, “The Rod & The Cast,” (first published in the Japanese “FlyFisher” magazine).
As before, these videos are not directly viewable here at FF&W, instead they are provided as zipped (.zip) downloads (any modern Mac or Windows PC should be able to unzip once the files are downloaded). This way, you can watch them on your own computer (and save me a potential pile of bandwidth due to replays).
These videos each present something interesting to the viewer, including things such as a virtual “broomstick” that really shows the advantages of a flexible rod, and a tip-path trace, which makes it easy to see how the tip path affects loop structure. If you dig this kind of thing (and better yet, if you have the software to mess around with it), enjoy. If you don’t care much for 22.4MB worth of slo-mo casting, just skip the downloads.
So here they are:
ma1_2p_broom.mpg.zip (8.9MB)
a1_forward_with_smooth_tipline.mpg.zip (13.5MB)
NOTES: Copyright 2010 Grunde Løvoll (grunde (at) fiskekroken (dot) org)
The caster is Andreas Fismen.
The rod is a T&T PA905-3.
The video is recorded while false casting 10 meters (outside the rod tip) of a AFTMA 5 line + a regular trout leader.
The videos are released under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
Thanks for posting another video!
I’m afraid it’s stil the Paradim. The TCR is in the m4 and a4 sets…
Grunde
Fixed!
:-D
Jason and Grunde, thanks a lot!
Aitor—You’re welcome. We should have some more up here over the next few months, too. Hopefully, some additional analysis will accompany them.