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Spey casting made easy – roll cast

ROLL CAST 

Objectives:

  • Essential cast for straightening slack line
  • Often used to lift heavy flies and sink tips to the surface
  • Teaches the key spey casting principles
  • Note – always keep D-loop downwind of body by altering which shoulder you cast from.

Advantages:

  • The cast requires very little space behind you.
  • It’s a great cast to practice the forward stroke, power application and creating narrow efficient loop shapes

Disadvantages:

  • Limited change of direction
  • Limited in casting distance

Mechanics:

  • Stand in a comfortable position facing your target down stream with the rod tip at the water. Righthand uppermost then right foot forward and vice versa.
  • Hold the rod with a nice loose relaxed grip
  • Lift the rod upwards until the rod is at 45 degrees in front of you
  • Begin a slow backwards movement dragging the fly and line slowly through the water, with the rod angled slightly outwards this is called the sweep
  • As the D-loop begins to form behind you shoulder lift your upper hand into the key casting position
  • As the D-loop just begins to sag beneath the rod tip deliver the forward cast.
  • Forward cast is a smooth acceleration to a positive stop using both hands pushing and pulling the rod through a straight line path.
  • With forward cast aim close to and parallel to the anchor in front of you on the open side. 

 

Common Faults:

  • No load in the rod – D-loop has not formed behind the rod tip
  • Link stick (too much line in the water and the forwards cast results in the line ripping off the water noisily) – Anchor is behind you because the line left the water or the rod tip has gone too far back and there is an insufficient D-loop.
  • Collision loop (the line collides with itself on the forward delivery) – The forward cast has crossed the anchor.
  • Large open forward loop shape – The rod tip as travelled forwards in a big arc rather than a straight line path.
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