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 ...

Fly rods have their limitations, one of which is that they are not good for long casts on streams where there is a lot of current. Yet, the Scots were undaunted by these challenges. They experimented ...

The River Spey, famous worldwide as one of the “Big Four” Salmon rivers in Scotland, is most well known as the birthplace of the Spey cast. While this iconic two-handed cast is an important part of ...

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 ...

Not so long ago, most fly-fishers probably thought the only kind of rods that required two hands to cast were spinning or bait-casting rigs — and big ones, at that. A fly rod was cast with one hand, ...

In 2018, my fishing tackle interests, which shift more sporadically than a kid in a candy store, turned toward Spey fishing, ...

The goal is to keep daytime flows low to ensure eggs remain underwater during their over-winter incubation period. For my ...

Anyone who’s fished the Salmon River more than a few times knows better than to be surprised by what they might see. A mid-river fistfight, a salmon swimming in a flooded parking lot, a spectacular ...