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by Malcolm
Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:18 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
Replies: 49
Views: 24811

There is a magic about the small rivers for salmon and seatrout that can't be matched by anything else. It's the whole experience of having to have the brain engaged all the time: overhanging branches before and behind, upside down and sideways loops off spey casts are par for the course. So are lo...
by Malcolm
Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:58 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
Replies: 49
Views: 24811

A "spey" line or -shooting head is better for spey casting because its rear half is heavier (up to 2/3 of total head weight) than the tip. It is easier to lift to a new cast. Heavy rear absorbs cast energy efficiently and lifts line from anchor which is not "perfect". Thin and l...
by Malcolm
Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:02 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
Replies: 49
Views: 24811

Hi Malcolm, How many days a year would you think you fish in such a way? I love fishing a long line, great fun in the right situation but I only find myself in a situation where a long head (Carron 85 or similar) is not a ball ache for about 6 days a year tops. Beauly town water, odd day on the low...
by Malcolm
Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:03 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
Replies: 49
Views: 24811

Randy, DT line was the traditional line for all spey casting here in Scotland until comparatively recently. Some people including myself still use them for swinging (almost) fixed length casts of up to 105ft or so. I would think that the change to spey lines only happened as late as 2000 and for th...
by Malcolm
Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:56 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
Replies: 37
Views: 18188

flyfishwithme wrote:Here is the Italian way of doing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww9H7DqqnR0
I hope this helps.

It's also the Scottish way of doing it...and also the English way of doing it since I learned the cast from Donald Downs well over 30 years ago!
by Malcolm
Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:18 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
Replies: 37
Views: 18188

I can certainly see it being use for landing very gently. However that is damned difficult to do reliably - at least for me. Every so often the fly will pop up at the end of the cast - I can do this deliberately but I can't reliably not do it deliberately if you get my drift. On the other hand the ...
by Malcolm
Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:54 am
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
Replies: 37
Views: 18188

That's a good demo of that cast. I was first shown it in the early 80s at a casting day. With weighted bugs it's difficult to stop the "pop-up when fishing at any distance. Especially when you are not using it regularly!
by Malcolm
Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:35 pm
Forum: Flytying
Topic: video - Jacobpattern
Replies: 4
Views: 3016

I can see that working just as well in a s16 as a nymph. Must give it a try in both styles.
by Malcolm
Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:30 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
Replies: 37
Views: 18188

It's a cast I use only occasionally mostly off a spey cast. A much more useful cast is the low spey where the loop propogates right to left, (or vice versa) never getting above two feet and parallel to the water surface - a very simple cast and probably the most used cast by me on the overgrown riv...
by Malcolm
Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:30 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: New to the forum.
Replies: 5
Views: 7679

I had the original vivarelli many years ago but got rid of it as it wasn't big enough for my needs but the design was great. I hadn't heard of Thinkfish but I recently came across a Swiss reel maker who makes a similar reel and might yet buy one of them

http://www.peuxreels.com/index.p....db8bcfb
by Malcolm
Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:41 pm
Forum: Flycasting
Topic: Principles - how many
Replies: 116
Views: 34902

The classical spey cast sweeps around the body with the rod moving around up to almost 270 deg. However it is easy to align the anchor with a flip of the rod tip over the wrong shoulder part way through the sweep phase with the anchor landing downstream exactly like a double spey (without the doubl...
by Malcolm
Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:00 pm
Forum: Tackle
Topic: Lines for salmon/seatrout/steelhead - What do you carry?
Replies: 15
Views: 7751

For salmon fishing I like to get the fly down a bit and with that in mind the Orvis streamer stripper is the best small river line for s/h rods that I have so far tried. A good line to spey cast and copes with heavy flies very well. If I had the luxury of being able to extend 45 ft of line every ca...
by Malcolm
Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:10 am
Forum: Casting Sport
Topic: What gear did they use
Replies: 10
Views: 4766

Ben,

I'm getting the blank (and finished rod) made by David Norwich. I'm just about to email him to confirm a visit in January.

I spoke to him a couple of days ago and explained my rather eccentric requirements for small stream salmon fishing and he is happy to make the rod to my spec.
by Malcolm
Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:36 am
Forum: Casting Sport
Topic: What gear did they use
Replies: 10
Views: 4766

Ben, Overhead casting is OK but not great. Certainly nowhere near what I can cast with equivalent long carbon rods. Incidently I will be getting a single handed single handed salmon rod next season built with a custom built low middle action and heavier lower modulus carbon optimised for flexible s...
by Malcolm
Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:03 pm
Forum: Casting Sport
Topic: What gear did they use
Replies: 10
Views: 4766

That's interesting John, I've been curious for years as to why there is so little improvement in casting distance despite the apparent advancement in materials. That Dick Millar could cast 179 ft in 1938 with a split cane rod(with a few others close behind) suggests they knew a thing or two. If the...