Besides learning to tie it, you’ll learn how to cast it. Photo: Jeff Mishler Back in July we told you about Skagit Master, a film in production about Ed Ward – Skagit casting pioneer, spey Zen master, anadromous Jedi Knight, our head guide at Alaska West – and his approach to spey fishing. Ed and…
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Speypages Week on the Dean
Dana fishes Bill’s. Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com and casting instructor extraordinaire, visited us at BC West on the Dean this year for some Chinook salmon fishing with a few steelhead thrown in as a bonus. He liked it so much he booked the lodge. Dana will be hosting a Speypages Dean River Spey Week…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 1 – More Cool Gear
This is a new piece of gear that you’ll hear more about soon. This morning we continue our coverage of the Fly Fishing Retailer show with a couple more new product updates for our first day. Titan Rod Vault We spent some time this afternoon checking out the Titan Rod Vault. This product falls into…
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Switch Rods – Why You Should Try One
Little Water + Little Rod = Big Fun. Photo: Cameron Miller We’re pretty shameless about the fact that we love spey fishing for steelhead, and spey fishing for king salmon, and more recently, spey fishing for trout. We fish in some places that are perfect for the two-hander…and two handed rods are fun! There’s been…
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Tom Larimer’s King Rig
Tom loads up yet another laser loop. Photo: Cameron Miller Tom Larimer runs one of the premier guide services in the Northwest. He’s a super dude, an incredible angler and teacher, and…you guessed it, he’s one of our spey hosts during our king season at Alaska West. If you saw Tom headed out on the…
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Spey Instruction At Alaska West
Class is in session. Photo: Cameron Miller From June 12th to July 17th of this year, we ran another season of really successful spey instruction programs at Alaska West. Since swinging flies on two-handed rods tends to be the favorite method for targeting our chrome kings, we invite the best of the best in the…
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George Cook on Sinktip Selection Through A King Season
Hey, George caught one! Photo: Cameron Miller George Cook is one of the pioneers of spey fishing for king salmon in the Northwest, and he’s one of our best-in-the-business spey instructors during our king season at Alaska West.George has shared with us a bunch about his philosophy of king fishing in the past, and today…
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Sage 5126-4 Z-Axis
This is a really good little spey rod. If you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty fired up these days about fishing lightweight spey rods for trout and smaller steelhead. In our minds, if a fish likes a swung fly, it’s a lot more enjoyable to give it to ’em with a two handed rod. The Sage…
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Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 3 – Tactics
Trout spey tactic #427: Put the wood to ’em. Photo: Cameron Miller In the past couple of weeks we’ve covered why we think you should spey fish for trout, and which gear you should use when you do it. Today we’ll talk a bit about tactics to use when chasing rainbows with lightweight two-handers. Spey…
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Skagit Master
Ed Ward, Jedi knight. Casting videos are a dime a dozen these days, but there’s one in production that we’re pretty excited about. Ed Ward is a legend in Northwest anadromous angling circles. He’s one of the pioneering Skagit River guides that started a literal revolution in casting and fishing techniques. He’s an innovate fly…
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