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Salmon Casting.

WHAT IS A SPEY CAST?

The manipulation of the fly line to make a dynamic roll cast in a new direction.

Why Spey-cast?

Sometimes we may find ourselves on a river with trees, a high bank, a high wind or other obstacles behind us. To do an overhead cast would be suicidal, add to that the use of a heavy tube fly and a gusting wind we’ve got some serious safety problems.

When using Spey casting techniques, the end of the fly line, leader and fly are attached to the water during the back-cast.

There are two basic Spey casts; the Single and the Double although there are more. Each has been developed for different wind conditions on the river. The only thing to go past your body will be a loop of fly-line and this will be downwind of the caster; the fly will always land on the water in front and away from you.

Any Spey cast is made up of a sequence of events or stages, one - the lift, two - the sweep and three - the roll cast, get one wrong and the rest of the sequence will not follow. The most important one is the first, the lift to 45-degrees, this will give you the same pressure on the rod tip every time when you do the next movement.

If you can master the first part of the cast which is the lift and the end of the cast which is the roll cast, the movements or sweeps in between for the change of direction will be very easy.

Always wear some form of eye protection while fly-casting.