Switch Rods
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Hey guys –
Last time I did one of my technical articles for American Angler, I polled this board with several rounds of questions and I think the article was a LOT stronger for it.
Hi Zach,
The Switch cast is nothing else than a Single Spey cast without change of direction (actually the Single Spey cast is a Switch cast WITH change of direction). You can also view the Switch cast as an accelerated or dynamic Roll cast, where you lift the line that is in front of you out of the water, anchor the leader in front of you, the “D” loop gets formed, and then you perform your forward stroke. The Switch cast works fine with single and double handed rods.
The Switch cast is also nicely described in the DVD “RIO’s Modern Spey Casting” with Simon Gawesworth and others (Chapter 7 of Disc 1).
I recently started practicing the Switch cast and it is a lot of fun. I use a Guideline Pounch Pro line and it works particularly well for Switch casting since it has a long belly with lots of weight in the front part of the line.
Cheers,
Jean-Paul
Zach…interesting topic….looking forward to reading it.
Will, you said you owned one for a couple years?
Zach…interesting topic….looking forward to reading it.
Will, you said you owned one for a couple years? Does this mean you got rid of it? Why would you get rid of a rod? Seems to me that if I get new gear I plan on keeping it around for a long time. Just curious…
Getting rid of stuff you dont need is a good way to fund new purchases.
Seafood- I still have my switch rod and use it often.
When I heard of the switch idea I jumped to an assumption of what that meant, based on my own needs:). Erroneously perhaps:))
For me it suggested I could effortlessly move between two handed overhead and two handed change of direction/anchor casts ( spey if we need to use that term)
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