Brian Niska’s series of spey casting tips continues today, with some great discussion on hand position. This is one of our favorites! Reduce Fatigue and Increase Speycasting Performance with Proper Hand Position Proper hand position will enable you to utilize the larger joints to develop power for the speycast, thereby reducing fatigue and increasing casting…
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Niska Spey Tips Series
Spey Casting and Hand Position
Brian Niska’s series of spey casting tips continues today, with some great discussion on hand position. This is one of our favorites! Reduce Fatigue and Increase Speycasting Performance with Proper Hand Position Proper hand position will enable you to utilize the larger joints to develop power for the speycast, thereby reducing fatigue and increasing casting…
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Slack is the Enemy
We’re happy to return to Brian Niska‘s series of tips on spey casting. For those of you new to our blog, over the past few months Brian has been taking us through some step-by-step tips on the spey cast. Topics to date have included Wade Shallow and Relax, Start with a Lift, Setting up for the…
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Watch the D Loop
Brian Niska is back today with the next in his series of spey casting tips. He’s breaking down the fundamental elements of the spey cast, and today’s topic is the D Loop. Watch the D Loop I don’t want to hype it up too much….. but the best speycasting tip you’ll probably ever get is…
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It’s All About the Sweep
Brian Niska continues his series of spey fishing tips, taking us step-by-step through the elements of a spey cast. The topic of the day is the sweep, and in spey casting there is no topic more important. It’s All About the Sweep The sweep is the part of the speycast where rod load is generated,…
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Setting Up for the Sweep
It’s time for the next in our series of spey casting tips from Brian Niska. Any time we need to run something about spey casting, we call Brian and he just rattles this stuff off – just think how much you could learn if you joined him for a week of instruction at Alaska West….
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Start With a Lift
Brian Niska’s back today with the next in his series of spey casting tips. Brian owns Whistler Fly Fishing, and he’s teaching spey casting at Alaska West and BC West this summer – drop us a line if you’d like to learn from the best in the business. Start Your Cast With a Lift Want…
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Wade Shallow and Relax
We are incredibly lucky to work with the finest batch of guest spey instructors in the world, during our spey instruction weeks at Alaska West and BC West. Brian Niska is one of our gurus, teaching casting at both of our northern locations. The owner of Whistler Fly Fishing, Brian is one of a rare…
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