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Post by Statler on Mar 26, 2013 16:28:04 GMT -5
Can anyone explain the "Salter" style of casting? I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around the differences between this style and a hock-handed cast.
Thanks!
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Post by FlySpoke on Mar 26, 2013 17:06:11 GMT -5
Cack Handed is when you keep your dominant hand on the top handle and you make the forward stroke over the opposite shoulder. This is a very powerful technique that can be used on river left(right hand up) in a down stream wind and river right(right hand up) with an upstream wind.
Salter is overhead casting with shooting heads and deep drifts where the rod tip is extended far back and almost parallel to the water. To make salter overhead casts in a cack hand would be to keep dominant hand on top handle and cast over the opposite shoulder. Wind direction determines what shoulder is used.
Tight loops are key to making these casts. This past autumn we were casting 145 measured feet from the beach.
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Post by Statler on Mar 27, 2013 7:44:21 GMT -5
This makes perfect sense now.
The first time I used my spey rod in the salt, I was trying to throw some long hollow fleye's. They seemed to "hold" the water, and I was having a hell of a time getting them up to make a decent forward cast. The only way I could (at the time) make a decent presentation was to overhand cast.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Post by FlySpoke on Mar 27, 2013 8:07:10 GMT -5
Next week I am spending some time with an IFFF THCI Master named Jim Valle. One of his specialties is Spey casting on the beach. He has developed, by use of Skagit and Scandi lines, ways to time the waves and uses the current of the wave moving back as his anchor point.
When large flies are needed this is a good way to get the job done no differently than if we were throwing big intruders. Getting these big flies off the water requires the line power of a heavy belly to translate inertia to the fly. They fish a lot of rips and jetty points that have moving tidal current with huge bunker flies.
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