Other
silly thinking, its too heavy, wrong, it, the rod isn't
if its balanced. In fact the rod when casting will feel
like a 9 footer, yes that easy or even easier when correctly
balanced.
More
silly thinking
The
long heads are hard to use, who ever told you that doesn't
know what they are talking about because they are easier
to cast than a 30 footer.
Any
Spey rod can be used for Overhead casting, wrong, sort of,
yes they can be however the Spey Rod is designed for roll
casting and forms of Spey casting, both are almost the same
to me, where as the Overhead Double Rod is designed for
its application and that is to cast a line Overhead first
and secondly Spey cast. Like a truck designed to carry a
2 ton load and you try to carry 5 tons, the 2 tonner can
but not very well, The difference between Spey and Overhead
Double rods is the same. Want distance, you need a Double
Rod designed for Overhead casting. Spey Rods generally have
a nice parabolic curve, a medium flex rod, the Overhead
rod it a fast taper almost like a fast taper spin rod.
Even
more silly thinking
To
cast a Double Handed Rod Overhead is hard, again this thinking
is wrong. Most people when shown by some one who can cast
will cast 100 feet or more in the first 10 attempts and
you don't need expert instructors to reach 120 feet. After
120 foot casts, that where the real skills are needed and
help. And nobody with a 9 foot fly rod can cast 120 feet
when fishing, let alone for 3 hours.
Won't
use a Double Handed Rod because the Running/Hauling lines
always tangled or blow about the place and formed knots.
Yes, that was yesterday, today we have new products to overcome
these problems and make life easier. The Talon Advanced
Running/Hauling line was developed to over come these problems.
Line
weights are the same as the line weights for 9 foot rods.
No they are not. The Double Handed Fly Rod requires a heavier
line load.
Too
hard to land the fish, I think thats about the best of the
silly thinking, now whats harder, come home and say, I saw
the fish but my casts were 70 feet or more too short, caught
nothing or come home and say, I had trouble landing all
the fish, my fly landed in the middle of the feeding school
of fish every time and the school was only 130 feet out.
Now if your like me, I am there to catch fish and they are
not hard to land, just take a look at all the surf fishermen,
are they having trouble?
Enough
of the silly thinking, some positive thinking
Double
Handed Overhead Rods are for every body, the young and the
not so young, the boys and the girls.
A great
fly rod for people who haven't cast or know how to cast
a fly rod as they can develop the skills required very quickly
and start to enjoy the thrills of horsepower fly casting
into the distance.
The
fly lines used on Double Rods in Overhead or Scandinavian
casting are called Shooting Heads and are generally cheaper
than 'normal' fly lines. The Shooting Heads are connected
to the Running/Hauling line by a loop to loop connection,
you can make these loops yourself, and save money and the
make the loops to what you think is required, not what is
in the loop packet.
Running/Hauling
lines are generally cheap, cheaper than 'normal' fly lines.
45 Foot
heads are really easy to cast, the long rod assists you
with this task.
With
practice a 11/12w Shooting Head will land on the water just
like any other 12w fly line, yes there is a splash down
but only lightly.
Still
worried about scaring fish with you line's splash down?
You shouldn't because we now add a 15 or 21 foot leader
to the end of the Shooting Head and in the case of the RIO
Scandinavian Shooting Head with the Intermediate tip which
is a 12 foot clear section on the end of the floating body,
you now have up to 33 feet between the colored line body
and your fly. Most 9 foot fly rods use a 9 foot clear leader,
with the Double Rod system your leader 24 feet further away
from the fish you are about to trick.
You
can still roll cast, you can still Spey cast, but not as
beautifully and as far as the true Spey Rod.
Roll
casts of 100 feet can be achieved with practice using a
Double Overhead Rod and the Shooting Head lines. With increased
skill levels longer casts can be reached.
So if
you want to reach out to where the fish are feeding or where
they broke the water, or where the early afternoon Trout
are feeding way out, why not join the Double Handed Overhead
Fly Rod people and really start to enjoy the thrill of reaching
out into the horizon.
Not
so good.
You
wear out flies because of the speed and distance the fly
travels in a casting session.
You
always want one more shot before coming home, and this can
lead to problems on the home front.
The
Very Good.
We
can now cast out to ranges with fishing flies that the Tournament
Casters talk about, to where we only dreamed about and as
a result fish are reachable, the smart fish that always
stayed just out of reach, Fish, things have changed we now
have a Weapon of Mass Destruction or as it is commonly called
a WMD to reach out and trick you with our fur and feathers.
