"Peter Charles" wrote


The SCUA cast is probably the best way to get anything down in heavy
flows. If you use a DT line or a long bellied WF, you can cast one of
these pretty far out and up stream.


I can easily see how a belly of line upstream is a good thing for getting
the fly deep, but I'm not familiar with Spey casting and not sure exactly
how the cast is done ..... I'll play around, as I'm greatly encouraged by
the fact that screwing up a good cast is the start .... I MUST be well on
the way to mastering this one


How do you get the fly to land well above you and still get the belly above
that? I'd normally try to pitch the fly with a tuck and then stack mend
till I was at fishing depth, but even that won't get down enough in the
water in question.

The fish ( I think ) sit JUST downstream of the underwater big drop offs.
The water immediately down stream of the fish is too deep to wade, so you
have to make a longish upstream cast to reach them ( or devise a means to
get down to them from above ... but, falling and riding over the lip into
deep water and sweepers isn't fun been there done that, recently ... so I'd
like to approach from below ) Where the fish sit, the water at their
level is probably slowly swirling around like a vertical eddy, but its fast
enough to have standing waves at the surface, so the line drags even a heavy
weight away from the zone as soon as slack is used up .