The rules for 2010 are unchanged from the 2009 rules below.

Based on comments from last year, however, we will have additional officials in the water to better mark the distances and on the bank to verify and record them. This should make for more precise distance measurements, as suggested by the competitors.

We also considered having casts made diagonally across the pool from one of the corners, as suggested by several competitors, but the shape and size of the pool would not allow enough room for setting up casts from both left and right sides. Therefore, the casting course will be exactly the same as last year.

Equipment

Required casts

Casters can use whatever cast they choose in four situations:

Line from the right – over right shoulder and over left shoulder
Line from the left – over right shoulder and over left shoulder

Casting rules

Change of direction will be set by markers at about 40 degrees (same as 2008)
Caster will be in water – about 3 feet deep
There will be a barrier 33 feet behind the caster.  No penalty for hitting it, but it will affect the cast
Fly must anchor in front of caster
If Perry Poke used, only one “dump” allowed per cast and fly may not leave water on “dump”.
Perry Poke (or similar casts using a “dump” or “poke”) can only be used with lines of head length up to 55’, measured from tip of line to start of level running line.
Once a cast is begun, it counts as a scoring cast.
An inadvertent “extra” cast in a required category will not be counted against the caster’s allowed casts in any other category, but will use the caster’s time.

The Competition

Casting order by random draw for qualifying and final rounds.

Casters (or representative) must be present for the random draw.

Qualifying
•3 casts each for the 4 required casts. Total score is total of best distances
for each of the 4 required casts. 
•Time limit is 6 min. with 2 min. warm-up

Finals              
•3 casts each for the 4 required casts.  Total score is total of best distances 
 for each of the 4 required casts. 
•Time limit is 6 min. with 2 min. warm-up

Friday practice time (20 min) at official casting station can be reserved by signup.

Women's Division

The Women's Division will have the same rules as the Men's Division, with one exception:

The casting station for women will be at the 50 foot mark in the pool, 20 feet farther forward than the casting station for men.
We will have separate markers for line placement to start the casts, so the angle change will be exactly the same as for men.

Note: The purpose and effect of this one rule difference is to make the water shallower (6-7") to compensate for the differences in height between men and women.

Tie-breakers

In the event of a tie for any place, the tie will broken by totaling each competitor’s second best casts in each of the four categories.

Perry Poke