We recently got the chance to spend some time fishing another one of Sage’s new ONE spey rods – the 7126-4. Today you get to hear what we thought about it. We’ve written up two other ONE spey rods – here are our reviews of the 8136-4 ONE and the 10130-4 ONE. Design The 7126-4…
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Really Heavy Skagit Heads
If you followed our blog much this summer, you may remember that we ran a series of king salmon spey rod reviews based on our experience fishing during the early season at BC West. If you missed that series, here’s the wrap up post. We tend to follow spey tech pretty closely, but in the…
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Spey Line Recommendations
It’s really, really important to figure out the right line for your spey rod. Much more so than with single-handed rods, two-handed rods (spey and switch) cast completely differently depending on which line you’ve got them set up with. Things have gotten a lot simpler in the past few years, but still…it’s not always obvious…
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Skagit Casting – Keep Your Hands Close
When you’re making spey casts in the Skagit style, try to keep your hands as close to your body as possible! Ed Ward, long-time guide at Alaska West and one of the fathers of Skagit-style spey casting, has been called “the man who can spey cast inside a phone booth”. That’s a bit of an…
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Echo3 7130 – Why We Like It
We recently had a chance to spend some time fishing ECHO’s new Echo3 7130 on the Deschutes River in Oregon. As you might have guessed, this is a 13 foot rod for a 7 weight line – a great format for steelhead fishing on lots of water in the Northwest. We fished the 7130 with…
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King Salmon Spey Rod Roundup
Today we wrap up our mini-series of posts about spey rods designed for king salmon. We started the series back on July 4th, with a post introducing the concepts surrounding spey rods purpose-built for kings. Based on our testing at BC West during the first week of our 2012 season, we ran reviews of 4…
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Scott King Rod Re-Review
Welcome to the fourth out of four reviews of spey rods designed for king salmon fishing. During the first week of our season at BC West this year, we built ourselves up a little quiver of big boy rods and fished them, just so we can tell you all about them. Well, actually we had…
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Pieroway Metal Detector King Rod Review
Today our series of king salmon spey rod reviews marches on! You can read the background on this series here, and you can also check out the first two reviews in the series – the ECHO King and the Sage 10130-4 ONE. Last month Brian Niska wrote up a really detailed article for us about…
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Depthfinding: The Real Beauty of the New Skagit Intermediate Heads
We’re absolutely loving the new Tom Larimer-designed Airflo Skagit Intermediate Heads for a lot of reasons and here’s how we’re using them to get deeper (hint: it’s might not be exactly how you think). The obvious: The head itself does cut the surface tension to get down a little—a big reason the lines fish so…
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