My Buddy Mike and I returned to one of our favorite rivers last weekend. A few years ago at this time of year we did alright on a different stretch of river, each landing a nice Steelhead. Catching Steelhead has a nice way of taking the pain out of the frozen blocks of ice that […]
Surround Yourself With the Right People!
Originally published in 2016 What do you do when you get a text message from a friend inviting you on a “just bring your lunch” trip to fish XYZ creek? You leap up in the air, click your heals together, and start building peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have the uncanny ability to surround […]
Nymphing with a Swinger
Ok, You can only take a kid swinging for Steelhead so much before he needs to catch a fish. That’s why when we go out together he chucks hardware and swings flies with his switch rod. Euro nymphing is all the rage now, a people are catching fish. So Im playing with it in hopes […]
Spey rod Reviews for the Working Man
Spey rod review. Spey rod shootout. Whatever. Consider this a Spey rod review in a shootout fashion that has taken place over years. I only recommend Spey rods or two -handed rods that I have owned, cast, fished or have heard very good reviews myself. I get a commision from a spey rod sale off […]
Skagit Casting Made Easy (er)
Conditions were right for a casting video on a fishing trip with Charlie to a local haunt where we are often skunked, but hey. We made a high Slow Skagit double Spey video Using my beloved Beulah Classic 12’7″ two-hander with a 500 grain Rio Skagit short, old model, 10′ of t14 which I hate on this […]
Overhead Casting Drill for Better Spey Casting Results
I spent last Saturday hanging out with Gary Carlson at the Red Shed Clearwater Spey Clave. He showed me this cool overhead drill he likes to do, to promote more bottom hand use in the cast, that should translate nicely into using more bottom hand in the Spey cast. We were casting one of his […]
The Mother of all Mending Your Spey Line Posts
My latest video with some bad casting by yours truly, with mending, line control, and random tips, followed by a couple really good videos by Ard Stetts and Patient Pete, Two really, really good fishermen. Also, I threw in a few more videos from seriously fishy fellers (SFF) Zach Williams, and Jon Hazlet, etc. to […]
23 Tips to Improve your Skagit Casting Distance and Power
1) Squeeze the Rod with your bottom hand and relax your top hand. This will help you use your bottom hand throughout the cast whether you are casting midrange or Skagit Casting for Distance. 2) Sweep with your bottom hand as much as possible. This will prepare you for using the bottom hand during the […]
Klaus Frimor’s Crash Course on Scandi Casting
The North 40 Fly shop just came out with this new 40 plus minute video featuring Klaus Frimor at the Montana Trout Spey Clave this year, hot off the press! It’s touted as a Scandi casting crash course. Klaus is hilarious of course and gives the Skagit guys a pretty hard time, all in good […]
Setting the Anchor in The Single Spey Cast
The most important elements in Casting a longer Spey line a long distance are anchor placement, a taught, powerful V loop, with no slack, and it doesn’t hurt to have a long, powerful forward stroke. I think a great way to practice is to work mostly on the V loop and anchor placement before worrying […]