It’s one of the most challenging situations facing the spey angler. Dealing with an upstream wind on river right? Nope. Fixing your tailing loop? Negative. Untangling your quiver of spey rods every time you get out of the boat? That’s the one. Lucky for you, Tom Larimer is here today in HD video glory, to…
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Tips
Flats Casting Tips from Joel Dickey
Our friends at Gink and Gasoline recently ran a three-part video series of flats casting tips from Captain Joel Dickey. We thought there were some great nuggets in there, so today we present all three in one fell swoop. Have a look! NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here…
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Use Your Bottom Hand Throughout Your Cast
…and the spey casting video knowledge continues to flow! Today we’ve got a great nugget of casting wisdom from Brian Styskal. Brian has been part of our ridiculously deep spey casting talent at Alaska West for the past couple of years now; his third place finish at this year’s Spey-O-Rama is one of many feathers…
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Advanced Anchor Placement Tips
Way back in April of last year, we posted a video of Tom Larimer giving some tips on placing your anchor when you’re spey casting. Little did we know it would become our most popular video to date, with somewhere around 17,000 of you so far hitting ‘Play’ in an effort to improve your spey…
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Identifying Bonefish Muds
When fish swimming around tidal flats disturb the bottom, they make a puff of sediment that’s known as a “mud”. Locating bonefish muds can be one way to locate bonefish. Bruce Chard is back today with another bonefishing tip – how to know if the mud that you’re looking at came from bonefish. Special note…
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Setting the Hook – Steelhead and Salmon
Today we’ve got a video tip segment for those of you who like to swing flies for steelhead and salmon. Tom Larimer, Oregon guide and host at Alaska West, BC West and Andros South, gives us a quick rundown on his approach to setting the hook. In the video, Tom covers Holding a loop when…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Wrap Up
Over the past month we’ve heard a bunch from Bruce Chard about how to present flies to permit. We got an introductory pep talk, details on presenting flies to feeding and cruising fish, and tips on when and how to set the hook. We’re wrapping up our mini-series today with some thoughts on weather and…
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Don’t Cast Too Far.
Jeff Hickman is back on our blog today with a very simple but incredibly important spey fishing tip. Don’t Cast Too Far. For some reason, people equate spey rods to long casts. Sure you can cast a spey rod far but that is not the main advantage of using one. Much of the time if…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Setting the Hook
It’s time for part four in our five part series from Bruce Chard on presenting flies to permit. At this point you’ve done a good enough job that a permit is interested in your fly…here’s when and how to bury it home. Like everything else associated with permit fishing, this stuff is often not simple!…
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All About Bonefishing Reminder
Now that bonefishing season is upon is, we figured it was time for a reminder that we maintain a giant page on our web site with links to all kinds of articles we’ve written about bonefishing! It’s located right here. It’s better than it sounds. Have a look if you haven’t recently. As of today…
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