Numerous issues individuals experience with Spey casting aren’t associated with the Spey cast itself, rather they’re having issues just with making a tidy forward and back cast. Finding out to overhead cast with a 2 hander is an excellent method to solve these casting problems.
Easy Tips for Better Spey Casting: Find Out to Overhead Cast Your 2 Handed Rod
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | Uncategorized | 11 comments
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I’ve been enjoying your terrific videos, what I’ve seen is the bottom hand requires to be more in line with the leading hand so the rod is more inline with the hands? And if I’m practicing on turf should I alter the weight of the Spey line or utilize the suggested weight for the rod?
I have this specific concern, particularly with left hand up casts. Its really simple to see when utilizing a longer tummy line by viewing the line travel after the cast. An idea I got that assisted a lot was when grasping the rod have both thumbs on the top pointed towards the rod pointer, makes it harder for forward stroke to go all wonky. Now to begin practicing my overhead casting and lick this concern for good.Thnx Peter!
Please can you inform me if I require to utilize one size larger or smaller sized on my switch Rod witch ir much better (on 9wt switch rod) thanks
Exceptional point! Thanks.
Nice Peter! Another terrific idea.
Wow incredibly coincidental as I was out with a casting trainer simply recently dealing with the overhead cast considering that I'' d checked out someplace that mastering the overhead cast with a double handed rod is crucial to enhancing your spey casting. I can'' t concur more that going out with a trainer with his 2nd set of eyes, understanding of how to discover much better casting and pertinent comprehensive descriptions will conserve eons of time and prevent establishing bad practices. All shown once again. One concern Peter … why are double taper lines sometImes considered much better for discovering the overhead cast on a spey rod?
Hi, how about your ideas on utilizing intermediate spey heads (such as AirfFlo FIST). Why and when to utilize, advantages, redundancies, casting stroke modifications & difficulties and so on
In utilizing a 2 hand rod when overhead casting in the browse are you much better off utilizing a skagit head or an incorporated line of a lower weight?
Thanks, You might simply have actually fixed all my (fly fishing …;-) issues … I'' m fishing off the coast, either wading or from a pier, so there'' s no swing and a great deal of removing, and in spite of me “running” a top quality 14.6 feet rod and a matching top quality scandi shooting head line, it merely doesn'' t work for me.I purchased the rod/line years back, and quit since I coulden'' t make it work, however just recently I selected it up once again due to the fact that it is an embarassment that it is simply sitting there in my closet, and naturally due to the fact that flies can be provided a lot more life-like than what a spinning-rod lure can …;- )And while I have a skagit line pending (< postponed by corona), which I believe will fix a minimum of a few of my issues, I have actually chosen to try with what I got, and You might extremely well be right, that I will need to let some line stay within the rod.- When it is all out, it is really unmanageable and "heavy", so I'' ll attempt thát next time out, thanks ... As a side-note, as the line inside the rod IS swung, I'' ll hink that thát weight is energised also, and add to the length of the cast ...?- And it may even assist keeping the loop tight/arrowshaped, which is an even GREAT thing in windy conditions ...??? Any method, another thing, something missing out on here on Youtube is 2 handed overhead casting strategy, the videos about 2 handed casting are everything about spey or scandi/skagit casting, and while a lot can be moved from one hand overhead casting, there IS a distinction or 2 ...- So that may be a concept for Your next video ...?;- );- );-)
Video may assist, however description is excellent likewise
thanks for this details, was attempting to find out what line weight to utilize with for overhead casting my 6wt 11' ' Boron iii. Not the most convenient details to discover, so value it!