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- Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:18 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
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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...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29123
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:02 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29123
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...
- Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: WF or DT? - Which can you cast farther?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29123
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...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:56 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20882
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!
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:18 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20882
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 ...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:54 am
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20882
- Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:35 pm
- Forum: Flytying
- Topic: video - Jacobpattern
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3279
- Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:30 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: single hand underhand/pendulum cast - produces a upside down tight loop
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20882
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...
- Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:30 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: New to the forum.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8394
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
http://www.peuxreels.com/index.p....db8bcfb
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:41 pm
- Forum: Flycasting
- Topic: Principles - how many
- Replies: 116
- Views: 41207
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...
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:00 pm
- Forum: Tackle
- Topic: Lines for salmon/seatrout/steelhead - What do you carry?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9107
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...
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:10 am
- Forum: Casting Sport
- Topic: What gear did they use
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:36 am
- Forum: Casting Sport
- Topic: What gear did they use
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
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...
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:03 pm
- Forum: Casting Sport
- Topic: What gear did they use
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5295
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...