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Title: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Mike Barrio on 09/05/2013 at 13:12

This double handed Switch and Spey stuff is great fun and very addictive :cool:

I can do it ..... but it's not pretty :oops and I'm really looking forward to getting on the river for a bit more practice :cool:

Cheers
Mike

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Ben Dixon on 09/05/2013 at 13:28

It wasn't looking that bad last time I saw you Mike.  You have a few hours to cash in yet mate.......

Give me a shout  :wink


Ben

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Hamish Young on 10/05/2013 at 07:36

Quote from: Mike Barrio on 09/05/2013 at 13:12

This double handed Switch and Spey stuff is great fun and very addictive :cool:

Oh yes indeedy  :wink

Quote from: Mike Barrio on 09/05/2013 at 13:12

I can do it ..... but it's not pretty :oops and I'm really looking forward to getting on the river for a bit more practice :cool:

Sod the practice  - go fishing  :z16

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 10/05/2013 at 08:18

Mike, agreed!

My first experience of double handers was a 15 foot Fibatube and an 11 weight DT Aircel Supreme. It was horrid and heavy!

My current set up is a 12' 6" 8/9 Guideline Scandi rod and shooting head, and it makes life so simple! (I want the 14 and a half footer, 9/10 weight version for bigger water :) )

The Manse pool used to hold all sorts of horrors for me with my original setup and I would struggle to put a line and tube across to the far bank. With the "modern" set up, I can pretty much do it every cast (still need practice!)

From thinking a double hander was a burden, I now look forward to getting out with it.

I hope to be replacing my 10' 8" #5 Switch with something a little more "beefy" for summer Sea Trout and can't wait to "Circle C" my way down pools I would normally struggle with using a single hander.

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 10/05/2013 at 09:55

Rob,  you fly fish for salmon  :z8

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Iain Cameron on 10/05/2013 at 22:37

Had a wander round the don with Michael "Windknot" this evening to look around and play with the Barrio switch line on my switch rod... Good fun.... Photos to come of Michael fishing a size 18 dry on said rod to rising tiddlers ... Presentation hampered by me forgetting to tell him that I'd left an intermediate polyleader In place. Oops!

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Mike Barrio on 10/05/2013 at 22:45

Quote from: iainCameron on 10/05/2013 at 22:37

Presentation hampered by me forgetting to tell him that I'd left an intermediate polyleader In place. Oops!

 :z4  :z4  :z4

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Iain Cameron on 11/05/2013 at 07:54

Quote from: iainCameron on 10/05/2013 at 22:37

Photos to come of Michael fishing a size 18 dry on said rod to rising tiddlers ...

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/3_11_05_13_7_52_48.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=713)

There were some rising fish. We had a Switch rod and the Barrio Switch line. Dry fly? tiny? why not...
Michael putting out a nice upstream dry...

Title: Re: Two Hands .....................
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 14/05/2013 at 12:06

Quote from: iainCameron on 10/05/2013 at 22:37

Photos to come of Michael fishing a size 18 dry on said rod to rising tiddlers ...

Have you not been hunted down by the dry fly police yet for using unauthorised methods? ;)

And there was me working large streamers on a 4 weight on Sunday!!..