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He calls it “the report card.” It’s the shape of the flyline as it comes over your shoulder on the forward cast, and unrolls out there in the distance, for all the world to see.
“The flyline will tell you all you need to know about your cast,” Flip Pallot instructs. Whether or not you have moved the tip of the flyrod in a straight line. Whether or not you stopped your backcast abruptly enough. Whether or not you applied acceleration at the right time or the wrong time. “Mistakes you make on this end of the rod,” Pallot says, patting the fly reel, “are magnified on the other end of the rod.” Meaning the line, and the fly, and where these two dozen Flip Pallot acolytes hope it lands.

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