In article , W. D. Grey
wrote:

I'd love to cast a two handed salmon rod.!

You don't =have= to wait for a chance at a salmon to use double hander.

OT
I use one in the sea sometimes and they can be useful for pike too. In a
tideway with a decent shoal of fish in front of you you want to get the fly
out there again before the shoal moves.

A Spey is great for getting the fly out again as long as there isn't a fish
already on. If you're getting one a chuck you discover that Spey casting is
much more about casting than about catching fish.

And with pike you find that the standard advice to release a yard of line,
count to three and tighten is a sure way to fail. Instead strike hard or
the hook won't move among all those teeth until the fish decides it tastes
wrong and ejects it.
/OT

Then when you can eventually afford a squillion quid to stand up to your
armpits in melting ice you have to unlearn the above.

Cheerio,

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