I've Joined The Club And Need Some Direction...

[ladystrange]

just got my first spey rod. i got some great tips from Toolman but i'm an in depth research kind of person

 

can anyone point me the direction of a decent instructional DVD for spey casting?

[Guest bigbadbrent]

RIO has a great dvd for it - Modern Spey Casting...

[headscan]

Spey to Z is quite good. Plan on watching Rio Modern Spey later this week.

[cheeler]

The RIO Modern Speycasting DVD's are excellent - 4 hours on 3 discs, covers traditional spey stuff as well as skagit, and I haven't made it to the 3rd DVD yet. Be sure to check the length of what you're buying, I've seen 24 minute DVD's for the same price.

[ogilvie]

There are some very good DVD's out there ...Rio's Modern Spey casting,The older Rio's International version, Derek Browns and a few more. If you can find a copy of Mike Maxwells tape you will have a very clear understanding of what a spey cast really is ..if all goes well we (Gord McLeod) will have some new cds of Scott MacKenzies at the fly fishing show...and if there I will have it playing on our screen much of the time..

Welcome to the world of Spey casting and more importantly,Spey Fishing...

Remember....the fish are not alway on the other side of the river!

C

[SilverDoctor]

just got my first spey rod. i got some great tips from Toolman but i'm an in depth research kind of person

 

can anyone point me the direction of a decent instructional DVD for spey casting?

 

 

The Rio 3 disk set is a really great place to start. Welcome to the club.

[toolman]

Welcome to the world of Spey, LS. You did very well today, for your first time swinging the big stick.

[ladystrange]

thanks everyone. i will keep my eyes open at the show.

[flyangler]

I learned a lot from the Rio discs. One of the things I learned was that there are toooooooooo many spey casts. I can do two on left and right sides and that sufficed for a couple of week's fishing. I might be ready to add another this summer.

 

Perhaps I'm easily overwhelmed. Some might say simple.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

As long as you can fish the normal situations (river left or right)..you don't really need fancy casts....i know lots of guys who catch a lot of steel, only single spey

[cheeler]

Alot of the casts I found in the DVD's were for special situations, such as the casts specifically developed for skagit casting, or when you need to pull a sink tip out of the river first. I particularly enjoyed the section on using the single hand rod to combine different casts when you have multiple instructions, some of the tips will be very useful.