Loading Move Techniques in Fly Casting

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"ALVIN DEDEAUX: Okay, the first part of the loading move--the first part of the cast is done with your arm and the rod. And basically, you're going to keep everything sort of locked in this position and just lift your line off the water. If we're doing a side-arm cast, we do it a little bit more side arm. But basically, all we're doing with this loading move is trying to get the rod loaded up and get all the line moving in the opposite direction, this way on the back cast or this way on the forward cast. So it's basically just done this way. And the thing that you want to remember is that it's an acceleration. So you're going to start slow and then as you lift or as you go sideways, you're going to want to speed up so that you keep that tension on the line and you keep the load on the rod. So you don't want to lift part way and then speed up or lift and hesitate. It's just a constant acceleration as you're moving back, or if you're going forward on the forward cast. So that's your loading move. It's just that pull--pick up or pull sideways."