originally designed to cast on rivers where high banks prevent a back cast the two-handed rod
has been redesigned to perform in many different angling situations learning to cast one of these
rods is not as hard as it looks watch as mike shows us the two most common casts the double spay
and the circle c so one of the things we thought we'd go over today was explain a few common terms
that relate to spay casting so one of the first ones is understanding river left and
river right and what that means so basically when you're facing downstream river left
is that side of the river and river right is this side of the river the key reason to understand the
terminology of river left and river right is to determine where you're going to put your anchor
or where you're going to place your anchor on a cast such as a double spey cast or a circle c cast
and more importantly to understand your anchor placement when it comes to an upstream wind or
a downstream wind now that we've explained river left and river right let's go through the double
spey cast where we have a downstream breeze we're on river right and we want our anchor placement
down below us so the wind keeps the line away from us so to do the double spay one key thing
is get your feet placed in the right direction you want to cast we're going to place our anchor
or rod length away on the same angle we're going to cast then we come around on the downwind side
and we do our double spey cast out on the angle and swing it through
so of the two casts you need to learn when you're starting out spay casting
first was the double spay which we just went through the second one is the circle c
and the reason it's important is it allows you to put an anchor upstream when you're on river right
we just demonstrated a double spay with a downstream anchor now we're going to demonstrate
the circle c with an upstream anchor in case the wind's blowing upstream like it is here right now
place the anchor upstream or rod length away there then you come around
right into your cast downstream and cast it out so again the anchor placement was right
here or rod length away to line up on the angle you want to shoot show that once more
i'm just going to throw it downstream to get into position lift oop sorry throw it downstream to get
into position do a circle c come around and throw that line out on the angle we want to swing it
man oh man he walloped that he just walloped it i got to try to keep my line out of the water
if i allow my line to sink in the water it adds extra resistance this is a really really good fish
he's gone for another run i have to let him run i can't follow him so i have to give him line
don't try to resist him if he wants to run
oh man that's a good fish
one thing about steelhead in the fall they're a whole lot stronger than they are in the spring
a little side pressure to get him out away from that rock
and he's going to run again oh man good fish nice fish bill good fish keep that rod up keep that
line from around those rocks so bill what were you exactly doing with the fly when that fish hit
it was on the swing he uh i tried dead drifting it and then i pulled it under for a swing
and that's when he grabbed it and there was no doubt about it absolutely none
okay so i'm gonna just guide your line i want you to keep pressure on it
just like that we got a little net here and a big steelhead oh man beautiful thank you
there we go nice fish
well good work that's beautiful that's another pushing double digits this video
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