well, one day i came home and there was this tractor parked on the lawn in front of the house something like four meters from the window behind my desk.
always one to take advantage of the little unexpected casting opportunities life brings, i quickly grabbed the practice rod, “you never know when this particular skill might come in handy !”, climbed up on the filthy thing and started playing with my puss.

getting in a real situational context is very important when practicing casts. with that in mind, i was facing ‘upstream’ and casting to Pussy Galore hiding behind the blade to the left. (just behind the yellow fluff that’s just above the ground and about to land) and the idea was to get the fluff to ‘drift’ to her lair, letting the grass current deliver the fluff while the rest of the line was upstream and hopefully out of view of the furry fish. mostly adapted to very close-up fishing, i’ve caught many a fish in the tiny, enclosed by vegetation Pyrenean feeder streams with it.

this cast is a Snap-Back Curve that basically creates a ∩ or more precisely, ɾ uʍop-ǝpısdn uɐ when seen from above.
the vertical snap doesn’t show in the image because the rod tip was brought down earlier in the sequence, however what’s interesting is we can see the horizontal, ‘sharp-edged, squared-off sideways U’ path of the rod tip needed to separate the two legs of line to get the ∩ shaped layout. not very clear even though it’s fluorescent red Amnesia, the curved around leader can be seen coming from the viewers direction towards the fluff.

the same line configuration is often performed by casting an Under-Powered Curve: a side cast followed by greatly under-powering the forward cast so that the loop doesn’t straighten out, also resulting in an inverted U or J shape. the UPC is fun to do but it’s a little tricky to get right and any kind of accuracy with any kind of consistency, specially if there’s any wind usually falls into the realm of wishful thinking.
not really a ‘meat & potatoes’ cast.