hearing your reel scream and telling yourself, “Be patient…be patient”? I have heard it as “the 10 second rule” or “wait for 3 seconds” or “wait for 1-2 feet of line pulling off your reel.”
Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets: Single Spey
Kaptain Kanudia is back with his secrets for the single spey. Enjoy.
Spirituality and Steelhead in the Aleutians
On that day, a fisherman was born; if it has fins and swims, I want to cast a fly in its direction and see what happens.
Topher Browne teaches the Snap-T and Double Spey
Swing the Fly’s Atlantic Salmon Editor Topher Brown teaches the basics of the Snap-T and Double Spey casts in this great new STF video.
Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets: Change of Direction
Kaptain Kanudia is back with secrets of the change of direction in the single spey!
The Swing the Fly Anthology: Early Reviews
The much-anticipated Swing the Fly Anthology is arriving at subscribers doors. Read some initials reviews here.
Finding Hope
Staying the Course with the Dry Fly Through the New Normal of Low Expectations.
Guide Gossip #8: Rod up or rod down?
The idea behind these Guide Gossip articles is to help you along your journey and allow you to understand your style and why you do what you do. Some anglers just fish a certain way because it feels good, or you have seen it before, maybe a guide told you to do so. This may help you expedite understanding of what fishing a “soft rod” means and or why you might choose to fish this way.
Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets: The Snakeroll
Bruce Kruk shares his spey casting secrets of the snakeroll.
Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets: The Forward Stop
Kaptain Kanudia is backwith the next installment of his Spey Casting Secrets!
Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets: The Lift
Bruce Kruk has some of the most technically pure spey casting you’ll ever see, which is why I asked him to film this video series.
Particularly, on the single spey, Bruce’s methodology allows for remarkably consistent casting. Pay close attention to this one: the lift!
Guide Gossip #7: What to do when you flub your cast?
What do you do when you flub your cast? Fix it with a mend, strip in and re-cast, or do nothing?