But Rob, it's not about distance. It's about mend--you can mend back further upstream than most one-handers can throw outward. It's about fly time in the zone--at least a 1/2 hour every toss. It's about no fatigue--I can fish two or three days non-stop. So get off this conservatism, remortgage the house or the baby and get a new rig. Don't throw away the one-hander. There's bluegills, ya know! Bob Lawless
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Blomquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Spey casting (was Re: Essential Casts) > On Thursday 19 February 2004 9:50 am, Ransom, Sean monotonically droned on: > > Well if you can cast 120-150 feet with a spey rod you are an exceptional > > spey caster. Competition spey casters are winning tournaments with cast in > > the 144'-155' range. The norm for most guys I see out there is really 80-90 > > feet with the long rod. Which is pretty good considering the majority of > > single hand guys out there are only hitting 50-60'. However, distance is > > not really the advantage in my mind for speycasting. > > Hey, quit dissing us single handers! > > With my 9 wt, and my 10 and 11 wt heads, I can toss a 3/0 spey an easy 70-80 > feet, and that includes bullet heads, bunny leaches and mega lead flys. And > if it were a bit of yarn, I might go 100-110. > > Its all about the rod and technique, and not to mention the luck of pulling it > all off at the same time, so I don't need a tailwind..... > > -- > In my family there was no clear line between > religion and fly fishing. > Norman Maclean > >
