The meaning of "with the cast greased to float."

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Dear forum members

Hi! I am asking the second question on this forum.
Thank you so much the last time. I was helped so much.

I have still been reading "Serious about Trout Fishing" by
Tony Orman and John Morton.

There is a paragraph on page 115, Chapter 16 : "Fishing the Surface Film".

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Rather than watch the rise in the fading light,
an easier way is to watch for any adult flies floating down.
Particularly if you are facing the western sky at dusk,
flies may be spotted quite easily. If these are taken by a trout,
then the dry fly is called for. Otherwise you should fish in the
surface film. The key is to use a wet fly or lightly-dressed nymph,
preferably with the cast greased to float.
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I can not get the meaning of the word "greased" in the last sentence.

"preferably with the cast greased to float."

Does the word "grease" mean put some floatant onto the fly line?

Or make a soft presentation cast to prevent disturbing the water surface?

 
If someone has time, please help me to understand it.
I would appreciate so much.




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I have found the following sentences in page 115.

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I tied up some very light-weight dark-coloured nymphs using
possum fur. Next night I greased the cast right to the size 14 nymph
and even applied a dab of line floatant to the nymph itself.
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By reading these sentences, I imagine that "greased the cast" means
make a soft and delicate presentation.

If the author put a dab of line floatant to his fly line, he would have written it clearly.

What is my interpretation?
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In this case the word 'cast' is another term for leader.
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In the older parlance the cast is the leader, and to grease it is to apply floatant to ensure that the leader doesn’t drag the fly under.
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Dear Mr MarkE and Mr Snuffit

Thank you so much for the quick reply and kind answers.

I have checked the word "cast" with my English-Japanese Dic., but it does not show the meaning of "leader".

Now I have got the correct meanings of these descriptions.

Thank you again.
I wish you will have nice fishing days.

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I haven't heard the word "cast" used in that context for a very long time.
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Hi GO-Ito,

What Mark and Snuffit have said is correct.

To go just a bit further, the cast is old fashioned English referring to the days of horsehair leaders where they used to apply a floatant / drying agent to the whole length of the leader when dry fly fishing to keep the fly suspended or totally floating. The art of modern day nymphing was just starting to dawn at that time.

In today's context, the ..."Next night I greased the cast right to the size 14 nymph" means they have applied a floatant such as Goop or Loon onto the tippet section to make it float. In this case I can almost guarantee that they were fishing emerging caddis patterns.

If you have fished caddis emergers and newly hatched before you know how important it is for the fly to skate and not sink during the dusk period.

Good luck.
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Hi! Jaapie.

It is been a long time. How are you? Enjoying fishing?
This is the second time that you gave me such useful and informative reply.
Thank you so much!!

In Japan, traditional "Tenkara" anglers used to make their own braided-tapered leader
with the tail hair of horses too.

When my father was a young boy, he used to "GET" a bunch of horsetail hair from a nearby
farmer's stable without his permission. So the farmer complained to my father every time they met.

Cheers,

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