Do you need casting instruction? Fine Tune your casting? A Guided Drift Boat Spey trip? Paul’s Guide Service is the Premier Guide Service on the Salmon River for Spey Fishing instruction and Drift Boat Trips. Check out my Spey Page for me details.
Give me a call 315-298-3949 or e-mail me to book a trip or discuss one.
I spent the last 3 days fishing and hanging out with Ed Ward, Mike McCune & Scott O’Donnell and what a time it was.
What a great bunch of guys, Ed, Mike and Scott were really impressed with the Salmon River. The were all about the experience, being from the west coast they had never caught or seen a chub, they thought that was the coolest thing. They ran around looking at the ground cover everywhere we went and all the different trees we have, On the west coast along their rivers either the woods are so thick you can’t walk thru them or the tress are so big, nothing grows under them.
Seeing these guys fish our river was awesome. They showed me alot about casting, but what was even better was what they showed me about fishing skagit lines, different presentations and flies that will not only help me a better angler for Steelhead but Salmon too. All this combined will help a great deal when guiding next season, I can’t wait.
Here’s a few pictures from the weekend -
Good friend and fellow guide Loren William’s getting a little instruction from Ed.
Scott O’Donnell with a nice cast.
Ed explaining a casting stroke.
Scott working down thru the “fridge”. Let’s just say 5 guys fished thru there, Scott rigged up a rod with a “Guide Fly” and hit one after all of us fished thru with his presentation.
Sunday’s am class, a lot of women are now into spey casting.
Mike McCune and Drew watching Scott fish.
Big thanks to Zach for getting these guys to come to the Salmon River.
Most Spey fisherman get stuck in their ways fishing, they think that if they make a cast and the fly is swinging it will do the rest all by itself. What you need to do is make your fly swim properly, How?? Steer the line with the rod tip is key. If your line isn’t doing the right thing, you fly isn’t doing the right thing.
I recently got a new waterproof video camera, here’s a clip of a swung fly swimming in the current.
Since the tempature has warmed up and were not in the single digit’s like we were a few weeks ago the fishing has picked up some. The mid-lower river has opened up and some angler’s are hiking into spot’s that were unfished for a couple of weeks.
Best results have been getting to a spot where you know there’s fish and wait them out. Lighten up you tippet and keep changing your offerings. Warmer temps have also brought out the crowds since everyone has cabin fever.
Tight Quarters: Spey casting requires very little line you behind you. This makes brush covered or high bank fishing situations possible.
Less Effort:
A Two-hand rod requires very little effort to cast. Your lower hand takes all of the stress off of your dominant casting upper hand. You can make long cast’s ( 60′-100′) with little effort.
Cover More Water:
While spey fishing thru a hole most guys fish in rotation. Once you get out the amount of line you want, then you cast and at the end of the swing you take a step downstream, cast again, take a step downstream. Once you get down a good distance another fisherman will start behind you.
Better Line Control: Being longer, two-handed rods manage and control your fly line much better than conventional fly rods. Fly control is one of the best ways to increase your catch rate..
Less Stripping:
Since spey rods can handle longer lengths of line, there is very little stripping involved between casts..
Change Direction Easily:
Taking your line from straight downstream and casting it back out at a 45-90 degree angle to the current is easy and effortless, very little stripping and no false casting.
Cast Big Flies:
You can cast big flies, sink tip’s & weighted flies for getting down deeper in the winter in cold water.
Fun and Rewarding:
Being more involved than conventional methods, spey casting is fun and rewarding to learn. You can also use Spey cast’s on a single handed fly rod on local trout stream’s.
As they say - “The Tug is the Drug”
I have plenty of date’s open in March, April and early May are filling in. Call me @ (315)-298-3949 or e-mail me to get in some great Steelhead fishing we are having this year.
This will be a great time, if you have ever had any interest in Spey Casting, this is the place to be, try out rods, lines, raffle’s, see the lastest in Spey Equipment and see some of the best caster’s and teachers in the country there.
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