coldfeet

I find myself using two handed techniques now while using my one hander, a slight lift, look at the D loop and into a roll cast. My home river has a few places where the two hander is a bit much rod for the size of river but other areas it's ideal. I go into a zen state while casting, swinging then stepping down. Dream trip or bucket list is to cast and swing the ancestral homeland, Scotland a the Dee and Spey, and perhaps Iceland for Atlantics or B.C. or the Kamchatka for steelhead

Looks like a single handed cast from what I can see, spey casting is two handed. much less effort required, you can throw huge casts with no room for a backcast once you try it you won't go back

What he said about Davie Mcphail, just by watching the learning curve is reduced but it doesn't beat practice

Second one looks good, I like to keep the hackle sparse- one turn or strip half. as for the bead, maybe with it at the back it will sit in the water more like a nymph rising- head to surface.

nae bad, may I suggest slightly smaller hackle. as for non traditional materials I've heard of belly button lint being used...

Beautiful spot, kind of touristy I'd try to get off the beaten path