332 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



It will therefore be recognized that the difficulties which 

 have hitherto overshadowed this useful cast need no 

 longer deter the everyday fisherman from attempting to 

 accomplish it. 



The Spey throw with the salmon rod is a variation of the 

 Loop and Switch casts, and when once the Spey throw is 

 acquired as in the Loop cast in the right handed method, 

 it can be immediately and correctly made in the left-handed 

 method, that is to say, that when once my method of making 

 any cast into a habit is acquired with the right hand upper- 

 most on the rod, then it is possible to make this cast with the 

 left hand uppermost and without any further instruction. 



We will suppose that the fisherman is standing on the right 

 bank of his river, that he has fished out his cast and that the 

 line is now extended downstream under his own bank, but 

 that he cannot make the ordinary Wye cast across stream, 

 as there are trees behind him rendering any backward cast 

 impossible. He will thus have to make the Spey throw, 

 and in this case in the right hand manner. He first lowers 

 his rod well to the water, taking in all the slack line between 

 the fly and the top ring of his rod. He then raises his rod 



'b 



DIAGRAM 18. DIAGRAM 19. 



Lifting the rod in the Spey The up-stream swing, 



throw. 



THE SPEY THROW. 



