Any angler who happened to see Matt Jordan on the Lester River on Tuesday afternoon might have wondered what he was doing. He appeared to be steelhead fishing. That much was true. But the way the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Jordan, of Gnesen Township, rips his line across the water while demonstrating the technique of casting with a small spey rod. The annual Brule Spey Day is set for Sept. 9 with demonstrations, ...

NEWAYGO, MI -- If there's anything else in the world that Simon Gawesworth would rather be doing than Spey-casting instruction, he's not telling anyone about it. With a smile on his face and a ...

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 River Spey in Scotland has high banks and is lined by trees, a fisherman’s nightmare. In the 1800s, fly-fishermen were at odds with the terrain, knowing big Atlantic salmon were there for the ...

Dwight Klemin is the opening act on Friday, May 16 at the 14th annual Sandy River Spey Clave, a three-day celebration of the art and science of Spey casting, a two-handed, no-back-cast fly fishing ...

Jason Harmon wouldn't fish for trout with a 10-foot pole. He prefers a 20-footer. Harmon, a fly fishing guide on the White River below Bull Shoals Dam, casts to a different drummer when he's after ...

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 ...