Slow motion is really useful. :_- ANrd age repetitions help a lot. I think I stumbled on the snake roll myself a coupe of years ago-some kind of instinct But its a good idea to perfect ir. . :-)
Simon Gawseworth is usually credited with the Snake Roll and he has said that it originally started out as just a way of getting line out before making the actual cast. I think a lot of us stumble on something accidentally. I became quite good at the Oval (Belgian) Cast before I knew it was actually a thing. I just started doing it as a way of replacing the roll cast when trying rods and lines on grass.
@@hooked4lifeca Thanks. I guess many people fall onto these ways of casting, but the we need to perfect them. I had a fwet ly downstream and wanted to get it up steam without hauling in and re-casting the usual way. I did a snake roll (or very close to one) without realising it. I then did it a few more times and it generally worked well, No breeze against me of course. :-)
One thing I noticed tonight practicing was that if I had too much line out and was into the running line, the cast becomes much harder to perform. With weight forward line, is there area of the head that should be at your top guide?
Usually we want some of the rear taper in the guides. If we have running line out of the guides when using a regular trout line, things start to get tricky.
@@hooked4lifeca Amazing. I'd love to hear your advice on setting up single hand spey equipment. I'm especially curious about the rods and lines. thank you!
@@fe671 I already have a video on Spey casting single hand lines, which ones work best, which ones will be adequate: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eNxtxa1ij1g.html
In all of these videos, I'm just using a standard WF-4-F trout line on my 4 wt. rod. Part of the purpose of these videos was to demonstrate that no specialty equipment is required to make Spey casts at conventional trout distances.
Picture a 9 that the rod tip inscribes in the air. The tip starts at the bottom of the 9 and traces the outline of it. However, the tip does not stop when it reaches the vertical bar of the 9 (as we would when we are writing it from the bottom up). It continues on into the backcast, so it "crosses the bar".
