{"id":448,"date":"2018-10-25T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-10-25T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:37:42","slug":"spey-casting-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/spey-casting-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Spey Casting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZaEZ2XhgAw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After looking at the collection of videos I decided to add some more ideas for you to try. The first is something I learned by watching a very fine Spey caster and AAPGAI Master Tony Riley, who was using his elbow to rotate the rod in the forward cast. Since then I&#8217;ve incorporated this movement into my Spey Casting &#8211; it works very well when casting on-shoulder, however off-shoulder I think you need to swap hands!<\/p>\n<p>This movement is &#8211; I think &#8211; the same that Al Burr uses and calls &#8220;Torque Twist&#8221;. Torque Twist is something that I also use &#8211; for fast overhead fly-first shots in Jungle Fly Fishing, but in this case I&#8217;m sure that it&#8217;s a form of pull-back. [If you&#8217;ve watched all the videos in this collection then you might know what I&#8217;m talking about :p ]<\/p>\n<p>The rising rod tip created by rotating the thumb outwards I learned from Matthew Howell MCI in Australia. He also pointed out how well it works with the delivery casting style that I&#8217;ve just mentioned while we were playing around with Spey Casts in Kuala Lumpur seven years ago. [It&#8217;s quite possible that this is what Lefty Kreh was talking about in his Five Principles and the Belgian\/Austrian Cast]<\/p>\n<p>The straight arm when moving the line around is something I picked up from the late Ian May at an AAPGAI Meet. As a method of emphasising movements when initially learning these casts it is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>The Closed\/Open Stance vs Closed\/Closed stance I learned from Lee Cummings and Tony Riley at a late night beer session.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/index.php\/ps\/reviews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht6.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht6-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ht6-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s an exploration. Bring a fly rod. Designed for you by Paul Arden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you have a question? Try asking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.co.uk\/theboard\/viewforum.php?f=100\">here<\/a> on the Board. Alternatively <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">drop me an email<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After looking at the collection of videos I decided to add some more ideas for you to try. The first is something I learned by watching a very fine Spey caster and AAPGAI Master Tony Riley, who was using his elbow to rotate the rod in the forward cast. Since then I&#8217;ve incorporated this movement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/spey-casting-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spey Casting Tips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/flycast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}