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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brinkac’s Prop Buster, courtesy Rainy’s Flies. The reel balanced nicely against the 3-weight trout Spey rod in my hands and I stripped a couple feet of line off the arbor of the reel. First, cast ...

That's Spey casting, friend - Scotland's gift to the Western trout angler. Spey casting is a fly-fishing style that requires a two-handed rod, and usually uses a casting technique best described as a ...

“If you’ve never tried casting a two-handed fly rod, go to your local fly fishing shop and wiggle a few spey or switch rods and talk to someone who knows how it’s done,” said Pribanic, who opened ...