Single-Handed Spey Casting

Solutions to Casts, Obstructions, Tight Spots, and Other Casting Challenges of Real-Life Fishing

Simon Gawesworth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2009
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-0559-2 (ISBN)

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How do you cast in tight spots or deal with overhanging branches? Most fly casters use the roll cast, but you can also use the double roll cast, which gives you a little more distance, or the switch cast for even longer casts.

In Single-Handed Spey Casting, Simon Gawesworth shares casts adapted from two-handed spey casting that enable you to fish the challenging sports most anglers skip. Whether you're a small-stream angler casting for tough trout or a saltwater fly fisher wanting to put your fly out beyond the breakers, Simon has refined spey casts for your one-handed rod needs.

The single spey allows you to change the direction of the cast and is especially useful on rivers with overhanging trees and bushes. You'll be able to target fast-travelling bonefish on flats and cruising trout in lakes.

If the wind is blowing downstream with the current, the double spey is your answer. The snake roll also works well when you have to change direction and have obstructions behind; not only that, it is fast and quiet. The snap T is great for casting big flies, weight and sink tips.

For times when you want to keep the fly line low and horizontal, if you are casting under an obstacle, you'll want to learn the side cast. The shepherd's crook (often called the positive curve east or negative curve cast) builds on the side cast. Bending the end of the fly line, you can cast around a rock or directly upstream to a fish that you would otherwise spook by casting over its head. the reach cast bends the end of the fly line nearest you, avoiding obstacles close to you.

For fishing sinking lines, the aerial mend puts the mend in the line when you need it, before the line sinks. Gawesworth teaches several options for putting slack in the line. He even has casting solutions for multiple problems, like when you have bushes behind and an overhanging branch in front.

You'll learn ways to cast a fly to cope with obstructions wherever you find them and whatever water you fish, making it possible for you to fish the waters that frustrate other anglers.

Simon Gawesworth has fished in world championships and has taught spey casting throughout the world. He writes for several fly-fishing magazines and produced the video International Spey Casting. He lives in Ammon, Idaho.

Introduction

Section 1: The Basics of Fly Casting
1. The Basics
2. Cast Groups
3. The Forward Stroke
4. The Catch Cast

Section 2: Problems Behind
5. The Roll Cast
6. Getting It Out!
7. The Double Roll Cast
8. The Switch Cast
9. The Single Spey
10. The Double Spey
11. The Snake Roll
12. The Snap T
13. The Dry-Fly Spey

Section 3: Problems in Front
14. The Side Cast
15. The Shepherd's Crook Cast
16. The Reach Cast
17. The Aerial Mend
18. Slack-Line Casts

Section 4: Combined Problems
19. The Roll Cast with Side Cut
20. Spey Casts with Side Cut
21. Sneaky Spey Casts

Section 5: Adding Distance
22. Hauling
23. Advanced D Loops
24. The joy of Slack (or Poking It)
25. Turbo Casts

Section 6. Tackle
26. Rods
27. Fly Lines
28. Leaders

Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index.

Verlagsort	Mechanicsburg, PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	1338 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
ISBN-10	0-8117-0559-5 / 0811705595
ISBN-13	978-0-8117-0559-2 / 9780811705592
Zustand	Neuware