368 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



the lure, and each increasing inch of its curving surface is 

 subject to the more or less direct frictional resistance of the 

 air. 



THE CHECK ON THE DRUM 



The backward belly of the line as the lure travels onward 

 from L ii is an important factor in accelerating the 

 revolution of the drum of the reel, and hence, as the braking 

 action is applied to the drum, and as the lure gets more into 

 line with D, Diagram 23, this belly will be gradually 

 straightened out and if the reel has been properly controlled 

 the line will, by the time the lure reaches the water, be 

 nearly in the straight line of CD. 



The more directly the lure can be projected to its destina- 

 tion, the less will it require centripetal control to influence 

 its course; the more divergently the line is projected when 

 released from control, the greater will be its curve through 

 the air, and the greater will be the resistance it meets, and 

 the greater the necesssity for such a resistance if it has to be 

 curved towards its destination. 



Hence, if the greatest possible distance of casting is 

 required, the more correct the principle which tends to reduce 

 the necessity of centripetal influences after the line is 

 liberated, and permits of a direct, or at least of a more 

 flattened trajectory between the rod top and the destination, 

 the better. In Diagram 23 the greater the cord HH, the 

 greater will be the retarding influences of the line, and the 

 greater the necessity for such retarding and curbing 

 influences. 



But the necessity for this centripetal influence ceases as 

 the lure approaches its destination ; for its course becoming 

 a straight one the influence of the line is only a retarding 

 one. 



