Our friend Jeff Hickman is back today with a great article on why and how you should try spey casting. Jeff is a year-round swung fly steelhead guide and two-handed rod casting instructor in Oregon. You can find him at www.fishtheswing.com. Today’s piece is an adaptation of an article that Jeff wrote for Fly Fisherman…
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Airflo Skagit Switch – Video Intro
If you’re a spey geek who reads our blog regularly, you’ve heard a bit about the Airflo Skagit Switch head. We told you about it way back in 2010, and last year we wrote our review of it. Our summary on this head is basically that… It’s a modern Skagit head by Airflo designed for…
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Airflo Sinktip System
Our buddy Tom Larimer is back today to tell us a little bit about the Airflo sinktip system and its color-coded loops. Tom’s day job is guiding anglers for steelhead in Oregon. He’s learned a thing or two in his day, though, so he also works as a line designer for Airflo. Airflo has a…
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Airflo Rage Compact Head
Many of us who learned to spey cast using Skagit-style systems have never felt that comfortable casting floating lines. There, I said it! Your fearless editor was raised on T-14; I’m really bad at casting even Scandi heads. These days in the Pacific Northwest, lots of us fish Skagit heads and sinktips most of the…
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Keeping Sinktips Organized
Tom Larimer has spent just north of 4 million days on the water chasing steelhead and salmon, and he’s figured out some pretty helpful tips along the way. Today’s topic? Keeping your sinktips organized. It’s a video. Here are the highlights. Keeping Sinktips Organized Wrap the sinktip around your hand Tie it off with an…
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Nice Fish, Charles
One of our big jobs during this winter months is to go through the bazillions of photos that get shot at Alaska West and BC West during the summer. For various reasons, some jump out. Like this one! It’s a our good buddy Charles St. Pierre with a beautiful king salmon he caught spey fishing…
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Prevent Rod Mating
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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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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Trout Spey Program at Alaska West
Spey Instruction You may have heard that we run a really popular spey instruction program during the heart of our king salmon season at Alaska West. Some of the best spey instructors in the world – this year the lineup includes Charles St. Pierre, Tom Larimer and Brian Niska – join us on the river…
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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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