Fishing from the bank

[owen]

Was fishing off the bank rather than being in the water (which Im more used to) at the weekend and was having problems getting decent anchors and shooting any decent distance.

Bank was 2-3 feet above the water in places with snaggy gorse a plenty so was trying to throw my d-loop fairly high and possibly as a result wasnt getting a decent load in the rod. Tried lifting a bit extra line but as I have the back of the head just inside the tip anyway doing too much of this stopped proper energy transfer.

Any advice??

[dunkeld]

Owen what about the Snap T. That can work in these situations.
dunkeld

[fisherscottage]

Hi Nolon,
Remember when you were up and we were on the Boat Pool, I showed you some of the casts possible when you have restricted space,
pull the line upstream as far as possible ( as if you were doing a roll cast ) aim down you're normal target line, then during the forward cast, sweep the tip of the rod down diagonaly from right to left, this will throw the main line off to left to prevent the fly from catching on it.
There will be lots of line on the water ie.. big anchor, so you need a big helping of bottom hand to generate enough line speed to shoot line.
Easier still, if you've got the room behind, don't forget the normal overhead cast.
If this does'nt make sense, pop in sometime and we can run through some restricted type casting.
How you getting on with the Demon ?

Take care, Tom n Jean.

[owen]

TJ,

Overhead cast - DOH - that's what I should have used, was stuck in spey mode.

Dunkeld, yes, another good idea I didnt think of at the time....thanks for that.

Demon is fantastic. Can feel everything the rod is doing so when I lift and sweep feel totally in control. Need to put very little effort in at all now just easy movements, a good firm stop and the line whizzes out. ;D

Its a world apart from my old set up and shows how important balancing rods and lines is.

Have given others a shot too and have had very positive comments from all.

Thanks again and happy to do a casting demo at your next open day . Kidding.

Cheers,
Nolon.

[martyg]

Nolon pleased your getting on with the rod
Have you hooked anything on it yet.A friend of mine uses one at the minute he is using a delta spey 9/10 and it goes great

[owen]

Martin,

Using a Monteith on it, with fast sinking tips on it the feel it gives is a great help with getting the anchor exactly where I need it.

Caught a well mended kelt on it first time out (saddo I am took a quick photo for the records) and since then caught 2 more well mended kelts up on the Naver, the first about 10lb, already tagged and a second a lot smaller which bounced itself off at the bank.

Have seen T&Js photos testing these rods on 'slightly bigger fish too so if I ever trip over one of those monsters am confident it can handle it.

Great rod. Very forgiving and as I said above, loads of feel and best of all very little effort required to fire out the line. A lazy mans dream.

Thanks again,
Nolon.