Spey casting techniques were explained broadly at my angling club. It was all new to me and frankly I would certainly like to give it a try...so many advantages!

Massimo Malli, flyfishing guide and instructor (20+ years of teaching!) and Raffaele Mascardi explained the techniques of using... a two hands fly rod, during an excellent evening lecture at flyangling club in Milan.

The advantages of two hands rod flyfishing are:

• Despite the fact that the rod is longer - 11', 14' and more -, you can actually fish in very limited space because the movements do not require as much as a space behind and above as for a traditional one hand technique. Thus, you can go fishing in areas which are unexplored by traditional fly-fishermen.









• You normaly fish with heavier baits, nymphs and streamers thus catching larger sized fish and all over the year.
• You can fish in medium and large sized rivers, lakes, at sea including surf fishing because you can cast longer distances.
• The SPEY techniques can applied and used in normal, one hand, fly fishing

I am not an expert at all, but when it comes to learning in the best possible way I do it in two ways: by reading abook and possibly looking at pictures....And then of course practice, practice, practice.

So the book I found is really excellent and the DVD nicely round-off dynamically what the theory says. During that evening, both text and movie were used, as well. And this

TIP!

To begin flyfishing with two hands you can buy a 14' rod. This is what Massimo and Raffaele suggested us.

Why not trying it now?

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