Paul the man! All good here, tooling away at progressively obscure hobbies and keeping my fingers crossed we might see some steelhead this year. What are your latest amazing adventures?

Hello SexyLoops Community! Since DVD's are a thing of the past, I thought I'd upload the entirety of SPEY TO Z onto YouTube. (Not being hip to YouTube, this is my first attempt, so if it doesn't work, blame Bubba.) Thanks to Topher Browne and Greg Pearson - better guys and casters are hard to find. ...

Tom, if there is something I can try to clarify, please don't hesitate to ask or PM. As I was mulling, I realized I should have added a sentence or two to the paragraph on "constraints": Of course on a Spey backcast, the entire line does have rearward velocity (the whole kit and caboodle i...

Re: Rock and Roll Been having a blast building classic tube amps and fiddling with some “new” designs. So much to learn! Good news is I haven’t burned the garage down or set fire to myself. New band is fun. We were all tired of being in bands where we had to play stuff we didn’t like. So, the new ba...

Lars! Thank you!

What are the Danes doing better than the rest of us?

Hello Tom, I haven’t been ignoring your post. It’s got me to thinking about putting the transition to words. The short version: Progressively bring your overhead cast off to the side. When you get to about 10 o’clock off to the side, invert your loop so the moving leg is under the static leg. Make y...

Hey Paul, Agreed that the number of Spey casts, all variations on a theme - all getting cute names - kinda got out of control. But I think the main innovations and their inventors deserve credit. I don’t know who invented the switch cast or the double Spey, but mechanically I would argue they form t...

Bendix, I think you have asked the proverbial “$64,000 question”. I can only speak to the rivers I’ve had the most experience on. Over the last 20 years, winter-spring steelhead returns on the rivers North of Seattle (e.g. Skagit, Sauk, Stilliguamish, Skykomish) have cratered. The Nooksack, which us...

I got my first taste of winter steelhead fishing in medieval times (late ‘80s) around Seattle. Back then it was hard work, throwing single handed 9-10’ 8 weight rods with sink tips and big flies all day long, wading tit deep to get far enough away from the bank to clear the trees. Sucked at it, but ...

Thanks Andrew! You must be one of the few who were able to watch the DVD and not fall asleep. Haha. Thanks for that! Paul, great to catch up with you! (Sadly, out this way we may be witnessing a steelhead extinction event, but having quit the day jobs, been having a blast trying to learn about old s...