A few tips for Spey fishermen who are transitioning from winter steelhead and trout fishing in colder water temperatures that require casting heavy Skagit lines, heavy sink tips, and weighted flies to spey casting for summer steelhead and, or trout in warmer water temperatures with smaller flies. Scandi lines are very light, rear weighted, and […]
Tag: OPST Commando
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 […]
Videos and advice about setting the hook on Steelhead
How to set the hook when Spey fishing for Steelhead I wrote everything I know about setting the hook for Steelhead in my, ahem, award-winning article The Steelhead Plan. An epic drama the actually features your’s truly setting the hook on a Steelhead and landing it. Here are three videos covering the subject. Enjoy. 1) […]
Rio Skagit Mow Tips as Skagit lines (shooting heads) for Short rods.
Last Summer I picked up a Cortland Fairplay 8′ 5/6 fly rod at Walmart. You can’t order these things online through Walmart but you can find them at some of the larger stores if you’re lucky. I was pleasantly surprised with the rod’s performance. Of Course, the components on a 30 dollar fly rod are […]
OPST Pure Skagit Commando Head Review part II
Ok, short but sweet: Use lightish sink tips to start with. Use moderate flies keep your coils off of the water as much as possible More later. Gotta run.
OPST Commando Skagit Review…kind of. Part 1
I had the opportunity to fish and cast with the OPST Commando head coupled with a 10’ Micro Skagit floating head and I had a ball. I don’t necessarily recommend this set up as ideal because the heavy body of the OPST Commando pretty much overpowered the dainty OPST mico tip but it was fun […]
A Very Entertaining and Well Done Video on OPST Commando Skagit Heads by Oliver Sutro
Whether you like short heads or not you must admit that this video production took a lot of work and is funny, amusing, informative and very well done! Hats off to Oliver Sutro! Here is another cool video By Oliver Sutro…
Happy Fathers Day- Mini Spey Heads for Trout with my Boys
I enjoyed an epic Fathers day weekend of swinging mini Spey heads with Streamers for Trout because I spent some time on the river with my boys. Charlie is a beast. We spent two evenings on our local water and I could not get him to quit, even after filling his waders, wading in arm […]
Kid Casting a Commando Skagit Head
Ok, its not an Official OPST Commando Skagit head, its mock up from a chopped factory shooting head I destroyed. Charlie is casting with an 8’6″ 6/7 single hander that has had the tip broke a time or two, so its probably a little over 8′ long. The rod is lined with a little Skagit […]
Spey Casting – Anchor Position Affects the D Loop.
When performing any Spey Cast it is important for the lower leg of the D loop and the anchor (which is basically any part of the line, tip, leader or fly left on or in the water when the forward cast is being applied) to be aligned with the intended target. In this video young […]