It required 150 years, give or take, allowing for memory lapses from too much single malt, for the stylized casting technique to travel from the River Spey to mainstream fly-fishing America. But like ...

Spey casting was developed in Scotland as a way to make long casts to fish on big rivers with little room to backcast. The name for the sport comes from the River Spey, where the technique originated ...

Brian Aguon, an Oregon fishing guide, is describing the benefits of spey casting. "First, you don't need to have a lot of room behind you to throw an 85-foot cast. Secondarily, it's easier for the ...

• Castaway Fly Shop ( castawayflyfishingshop.com),1114 North 4th St. in Coeur d’Alene, has two casual freebie activities to help fly fishers improve: Two-hand Tuesdays: Casting practice with Spey or ...

Traditional Spey fishing is closely associated with steelhead, salmon, and big rivers. It's a popular fly fishing technique in the Pacific Northwest that requires long rods, special lines, and ...

The spey rod helped Turek make a 90-degree switch in the casting direction of the fly line, a difficult task with a fly rod. "You could do somewhat the same thing with a conventional fly rod by making ...

CLINTON – Snow spit from the sky and a raw wind carried water spray along the wide stretches of the Clark Fork River as Simon Gawesworth taught the finer points of Spey casting on Sunday. Despite the ...

Imagine a fly rod with virtually no back cast and the ability to shoot line clear across the river. It's a set up that rarely gets tangled, requires little strength or effort - a place where the ...

The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...