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Sponging on the fly requires a technique similar to trot fishing. Lay 
the sponge up and a little our from our direction of travel. You also 
have do it on the down side of the current if there is one - so it helps 
to be able to use both hands.

Then let it drift back behind you and at the first sign the string is 
tight, snap it up with a wrist lower arm motion. It will pop back past 
your shoulder and right into your hand. Dump the water and you are ready 
for another cast.

I remember one ride down in the FL swamps, that was back before this 10 
year drought and we actually had water in the swamps - my arms were 
aching from casting my sponge by the end of the day.

Practice this before you do it around others. The first time I tried it, 
the sponge went over my head and whacked the horse in front of me in the 
butt. That was fun to watch ;-) .

Dawn Carrie wrote:
> I use the first technique if I'm sponging when stopped...I use more 
> wrist action than whole arm action, though, and have a thick string 
> rather than biothane (I find the biothane leashes too stiff and 
> unwieldy). I manage the sponging on the fly when walking or 
> trotting...but I am under no illusion that my technique comes close to 
> the skill of the Master's (yours).
> Dawn
> and Bear (take it from me...she has no skill...)


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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how 
smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard 
Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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