Tailing loop
The top leg of the loop drops below the bottom leg and the two cross. Tailing loops tangle the leader and tie wind knots, and they get worse as you carry more line.
Tailing loop
Your rod tip dipped below the straight line during the stroke, so the front of the line crossed under the back.
- Likely cause
- uneven power
- Try this
- Smooth from slow to fast, then stop crisply. Widen the arc for the line you're carrying.
What it looks like on the trace
During the forward cast the tip path dips below the straight line between where the stroke starts and where it stops. The app draws that straight line as a dashed chord and highlights the dip.
Likely causes
- Power that comes in too early or in a jerk, which bends the rod deeper in the middle of the stroke.
- An arc too narrow for the length of line you are carrying.
- Creep during the pause, which leaves too short a stroke for the line.
- Uneven power: speeding up, easing off, then speeding up again.
One thing to try
Smooth from slow to fast, then stop crisply. Widen the arc for the line you're carrying.
A drill for it
Pick-up and lay-down, one cast at a time. Start slow, finish fast, and widen your arc as you add line. Drills
How Tight Loop spots it
It measures how far the tip falls below the chord, as a share of the stroke’s length. A clear dip is flagged as a major fault, a slight one as minor, with the likely cause beside it.
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