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For fly fishers, the real difference isn't the country a cast came from or what it's called-it's which method works best for fishing conditions. The Welsh Throw and the Spey cast are both classic forms of D-loop casting, developed to deliver a fly when a traditional back cast isn’t possible. At first glance they look very similar. Both use the water to anchor the line, both form a D-loop to load the rod, and both were shaped by the demands of salmon fishing. The real differe

In the narrow valleys of South Wales, where rivers thread through steep, wooded banks, long backcasts were impossible. Anglers found a...

The underhand Scottish cast, often simply called the underhand throw , has a history that predates the Spey cast by a good decade and a...