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Quote by BG:"Hey Mike how about putting up some basic spey information on the Red Shed web site to help educate the masses."
That is an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Please tell me what you think should be on that page. I'm interested in the opinions of everyone. It does not do any good to recommend on the internet specific tackle setups that I know will work for a new spey caster, mostly because everyone is different. Also if you ask for an opinion on a certain tackle combo you will get 30 opinions all of which may be right or partly right but several of which do not apply to the original poster.
I already have one very important bit of info on my front page. That is the link to Dana Sturn's Spey Clave. There is more spey related info there then any other place I know. It is free for the taking for anyone that will spend some time searching a little.
I will start a page on my website called "Getting Started".
It will have a short bit of history on spey casting that I will borrow (with permission) from Dana or Simon. Please feel free to add your opinions here or via e-mail.
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Quote by BG:"Talked to the midwest Sage rep while I was gently handling Ms 5120. He said this is a highly specialized rod and he would be glad to send it to my local fly shop for a weekend pilot test if I like."
Why not pick up the little honey I have for a $165.00+ sales tax less? It is primo, $500.00 shipped to your door with a blank card, and a 3 day return priviledge. How can you go wrong??????????? Two years is along time to sit on the fence, even for a corporate attorney.
Edited by REDSHED (02/10/05 09:36 PM)
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Now that is a deal! Hal ... it's 'put up or shut up' time.
:>)
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Whats a $ 165 ?
BG
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I just got a new Redington RS3 13'3" 7 wt for light spey fishing. It casts a 6/7/8 wt wc ok. I have ordered a 7/8 wt Airflo for it, hopefully it will do better.
Nice 4 piece rod, except for cork.
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Hi all
New here but lurking a while:) New to speycasting as well but... I do think the most usefull info you put on the Redshed site are links to here and Dana,s Speypages along with the encouragement that no honestly asked question is a stupid one:))) I,m constanly amazed by the generosity of those who frequent these boards in genuinley offering usefull help to those foolish or insightfull enough( you pick) to pick up spey rods and their associated addictions:)
I think many of the newer places where spey approaches are being explored are somewhat isolated from the mainstream of the spey world- and outside input is much appreciated and needed to shorten the curve ,<speycasting for 30 lb river channel catfish and 35 lb river carp here:) I for one am glad you folks are around and as open are you are.
Will
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Hey Will
Welcome you must be that spey rod fisher up in Winnipeg or Manitoba, or Saskatch, right ?
Your a legend in the growning spey world. LOL
Cheers
BG
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Jane Wagner
Edited by Black_Ghost (02/18/05 10:06 AM)
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As you said, that's the interesting thing about the '2-hander world,' very different group of fly phishers.
Fred
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Will proves the motto of the brand new spey site I found this week.
"No matter where you fish, sooner or later you'll need to spey cast". Catfish you got to love it, must really put a C in that big spey rod.
How true it is.
Nice new spey site, which I see the normal group of speyers have not found yet, well except for one periodic scottish visitor to here. LOL
Hey WG should we keep it a secret ? Neither Evans or Red Shed are there yet.
I could not register on it the other night though so I am not an official member yet.
Plus this sites in english and its free !
BG
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Jane Wagner
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Thanks for the welcome:)) and yep i,m the spey rod fisher in Winnipeg,Manitoba:). Though I have another on board - guess we are a booming market:))) Look forward to the banter::)
Will
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Ah Winnipeg! Loved the winters in my youth (actually 'born' in the St. Boniface hospital on a Saturday evening so birth cert. was registered in St.B). Early family life (before moving to Ocean Falls, BC) was on the farm in Birds Hill.
Small world department: when I first moved to California in 1984 'lived' in a small 5th wheel at Casini Ranch RV park down by the mouth of the Russian River. Folks at the office asked if I'd met "Mr. 'X?" (Can't remember the Gentlemen's name now to save my life.)
"No says I, why?" "He's from Canada too."
Meet him a couple of days later and we swap 'where you from' stories ......... He and his family owned the mink farm that was right across the road from where I lived in Birds Hill as a young boy!!! (Lest you haven't gotten the point, Birds Hill was in the middle of Bloody Nowhere!!, Manitoba, Canada.
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Lol Fred- small world getting smaller dept.- if I stand on my tippy toes I can see where you were born out my upstairs window:))<in other words I live in St B.:)))
Bird's Hill- well its a Provincial Park now and is now the Center of Bloody Somewhere!!!!!! Manitoba:)- lots of satelite communities that way.
Winters are still on the nippy side of not warm:)
A couple of spots - the little figure in the square is my friend Kim wading the spine up to the Gates on the Red north of Winnipeg after Cats in low water
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~wmilne/lckportgates1.jpg
and this one is the Winnipeg River in the spring-
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~wmilne/powerview1.jpg
home of my this coming season obsession- Sturgeon:)))))))
Will
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Smaller world department for those who've read the thread on the Kaufmann Spey Days here on the Board. The money to purchase the motor home came from my bank accounts with the Royal Bank of Canada.
CD's originally funded from the estate(s) of my Mother's two brothers ... last of the family to actively farm the Birds Hill property.
In the even 'smaller world department' when the estates had been settled Mom and I each got a chunk of money. Given the exchange rate no point in bringing the funds in to the US.
So asked the Atty if there was a bank in his immediate area (in Winnipeg) and he said 'yes.' Asked him to contact the back vis a vis setting up out of country bank accounts, etc.
So he has a local branch of RBC give me a call, we set up the accounts, etc. Tell Mom 'where' her/my money was sitting ........... It's coming ...
It was the SAME BANK, SAME BRANCH where my Mother and Father established their accounts when they got married in the early '40's!!! 
Too Spookie!!
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