In article , Peter Charles
wrote:

Would you call a Perry Poke a Spey cast or a Skagit cast?

I don't know what either a Perry Poke or a Skagit cast are
If you call
all casts that depend on a D-loop, a "Spey" cast then it's pretty
difficult to draw a distinction.

I'd call casts that depend on a D-loop a roll cast (some people here
also call it a switch cast). For me fundamental to a Spey cast is a
change of direction.


You say you've never casted a
shooting head, perhaps that's why you're having problems with the
notion of different styles of rods and lines.

No. Just with the distinction between a rod specially made for Spey
casting. Partly, I suppose, because I may well end up doing both Spey
and overhead casts on the same river on the same day. I don't really
want to carry two rods around for which way the wind happens to be, and
how awkward the bank is behind me.

Lazarus

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