I can muster a pretty decent cast with my two hander, it's a 12'4" Loop Blackline using a RIO 8/9 windcutter line, as long as I'm tossing light flies such as a Coal Car or a Silver Hilton.

When I tie on one of my heavy steelhead bugs the extension of my cast fails. I feel like I'm not generating enough power, or line speed or whatever you want to call it coming out of my D loop. I toyed with adding the density compensator to the line to increase the weight forward bias of the line but I still can't get the distance I would like. (I can consistenly outcast the spey, using the same pattern, by as much as thirty ~forty feet with an 896VPS or 896XP)

1) It's just me and as I become more proficient it'll get better

2) Need a different rod (i.e. length, speed, weight, mfg etc.)

3) Rod's ok, need a different line

4) Silly, you can't present those big bugs with a spey cast (all in fun)

5) ???

6) ???

Thoughts or opinions

~w