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Contains an article on new spey rods from various manufacturers and most interesting G. Loomis will intoduce 24 new double handed rods in September with Scandinavian, Skagit, and traditional action models.
Article states that spey usage is on the rise for trout, small mouths, shad and saltwater species in addition to the traditional steelhead and salmon usages.
Lots of light spey 5/6 model rods appear to be coming into the market you know like Ms. 5120 which now has competition. LOL
Heres a link they reference summarizing all spey vendors and other internet resources.
Fly Fisherman Spey Table
Interesting statement in the steelhead section of the article: "Most steelhead catching however is not in the Pacific Northwest but in the tributaries that feed the Great Lakes. Rick Kustich is a long time advocate of traditional wet fly swinging techniques for Great lakes steelhead and uses 6 or 7 weight two handed rods between 12 and 13.5 feet"
Mr. Kustich wrote a very good book on GLs steelhead and has fished through out the PNW so perhaps he is right. I guess no one knows for sure.
Check it out.
BG
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Those are some good web-sites Thanks!
With all the line charts that are out there none of them give grain weights and belly lengths. Bummer!
Earlier this summer I camp with Way & Steve & Simon & Jim & Ed & Marlow & Aaron & Brian great guys around the camp fire lots of stories.
About the Steelhead we all know where they came from and 6/7 spey rods are catching on everywhere.
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Well, guess my little 11'3" rod marked 6 wt. (but I use a 7 wt. line) isn't so bad, after all. It suits me just fine, catches fish OK, and I have fun with it.
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That’s the problem with line manufactures, there no standards with lines. There a Hardy Spey line 8/9 that weighs 324 grains and a Rio Spey line 8/9 that’s weighs 1100 grains a little different wouldn't you say?
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Right, on, when will the spey rod and line manufacturers get together like other industries and develop agreed upon standards ? After all spey now appears to be a growth part of the fly fishing industry.
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That’s the problem with line manufactures, there no standards with lines. There a Hardy Spey line 8/9 that weighs 324 grains and a Rio Spey line 8/9 that’s weighs 1100 grains a little different wouldn't you say?
Brian, this is EXACTLY why the info you've posted is so damned valuable!!!!
Being repetitive here, but Bob M's rating of his rods in grain weights vs. 'line weights' is really going down the right path.
"Spey Lines'' (as we know them today) have zero relationship to zero.
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Hey Fred
It must be prime dry fly steelhead time coming out there soon ? Are you confident in this as an effective method on the Rogue ?
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Actually Hal, they've just jumped the flows til mid September. It's back to feather bricks and sink tips for the next couple of weeks.
Will be heading up to the North Umpqua again in a few days. There full floaters and 'skatters' can be very effective. But on the Rogue, dry's (for me anyway) only seem to be effective very late in the day (as in just before dark).
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