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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CRAIG – The fly line traced the edge of the water as Whitney Gould found the precise angle, ...