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Yesterday, I was on our local crummy river, the Napa River with my new ARC 1409. I had just replaced my GS floating tip with the Lumi Lux 15' tip, 3' of tippet and a size 4 nymph.
I was river right with the river flowing downstream and the tides started to flow up stream. That created an eddy where I was making my D loops. Then the wind came up stream and swirled around. Suddenly my Double Speys were having problems.
Being to stubborn to stop, I borrowed an ugly casting technique from my son, the Cromagnon caster. He uses this technique on the American River Spey fishing in eddies and upwind situations with his sinking tips and a heavy shad fly with high river flows.
He starts with a double spey and aborts it about halfway through the first part of this mess and reverses the rod direction. That leaves a pile of line to the right and some downstream of you.
Then he does a big D loop and casts out with a cast resembling the underhand cast with a high release and banging the butt of the rod into his gut while holding the rod up high for the entire cast.
When I tried this and everything worked, I was casting out all of the GS head to the color change just outside my reel. The casts went across river high and dropped way out in the river. This abortion worked on the lower Rogue this fall in similiar situations with a GS floater and my Sage 7141.
Is this a cast? Or is it some monster thing my son the Cromag Caster has developed, and I inherited it from him?:eyecrazy:
I was river right with the river flowing downstream and the tides started to flow up stream. That created an eddy where I was making my D loops. Then the wind came up stream and swirled around. Suddenly my Double Speys were having problems.
Being to stubborn to stop, I borrowed an ugly casting technique from my son, the Cromagnon caster. He uses this technique on the American River Spey fishing in eddies and upwind situations with his sinking tips and a heavy shad fly with high river flows.
He starts with a double spey and aborts it about halfway through the first part of this mess and reverses the rod direction. That leaves a pile of line to the right and some downstream of you.
Then he does a big D loop and casts out with a cast resembling the underhand cast with a high release and banging the butt of the rod into his gut while holding the rod up high for the entire cast.
When I tried this and everything worked, I was casting out all of the GS head to the color change just outside my reel. The casts went across river high and dropped way out in the river. This abortion worked on the lower Rogue this fall in similiar situations with a GS floater and my Sage 7141.
Is this a cast? Or is it some monster thing my son the Cromag Caster has developed, and I inherited it from him?:eyecrazy: