What fly on the Spey?
salmon
The fast flowing River Spey is a delight to fish a salmon fly through with its perfect fly fishing pools and its mainly gravel riverbanks and riverbed which are due to the movement of its gravel substrate base which is constantly on the move during high water levels.
What do spey flies imitate?
When we use Spey flies, we are usually attempting to imitate any of several Crustaceans, aquatic insects or, just putting something “buggy” in front of Salmon and/or Steelhead. These flies often require long, soft barbed hackle to imitate the legs, pincers and antennae of shrimp.
What are Spey hackles?
Spey Hackle – Whiting Farms. Unique to the fly tying world, Spey capes and saddles are hair-like in appearance. A great substitute for tying salmon flies and shrimp patterns that call for Heron.
What is a dee fly?
A style of fly became very popular using these new materials on a river called the Royal Dee. Thus, ‘Dee style flies’ were born, characterized by the following features: Large tags. Tails. Long and flowing hackles of heron.
How far can you cast with a Spey rod?
The longer spey rod — generally 12 to 16 feet in length — allows the angler to cast the fly as far as 100 feet. Highly proficient spey casters can toss a fly nearly 200 feet. (The world-record spey cast is 295 feet, by Steve Rajeff.)
What is the difference between switch and spey casting?
Switch rods overall will cast lighter grain weighs when compared to the same line weight in a spey rod. This is dictated by the difference in rod length. Because spey rods are longer, it is easier to cast further distances. When swinging flies, spey rods can manage more line on the water because of their longer length.
What does an intruder fly imitate?
The Intruder was designed to imitate baitfish, squid, shrimp and even small eels using subtle natural tones with large sparse profiles. In the early 1990s French, Howell, and Ward had been in Alaska guiding and fishing with big 3/0 spey hooks.
Is Spey casting difficult?
The river Spey’s high weed laden banks made traditional fly casting very difficult. Alas, the spey cast was born. Now used today in so many situations including for salmon & steelhead, trout, saltwater, and even on small streams when there is little room to maneuver.
