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By Steven Pugh | Celtic Fly Casts The Metropolitan Cast, is one of the most interesting waterborne casting methods in the history of fly fishing. Its origins are closely connected with an earlier Welsh casting technique known as the Welsh Throw. Although the Metropolitan Cast has attracted renewed interest in recent years, its history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Its underlying principles also remain remarkably useful in modern fishing conditions, particularly wher

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...