It was the 3rd false cast that threw me off - I realized that what looked initially as a 'chuck it up the gut' wasn't so. The heads of the grasses were crisscrossed, overlapped from left and right. That forced my hand to try to thread into exactly where I could get to, which I knew would draw it out and downstream to eat. That explains the extra false casts. From there, however, it steam rolled me. I could never get the line control to jive with the angles and was a move behind - any time my rod