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Fly fishing & Guide Schools of Oregon offers SPEY CASTING: Introductory to advanced, using "Modern Spey Casting" methods including Skagit, Scandinavian, and Traditional. Your instructor is an FFF Certified Fly Casting Instructor who has enthusiastically studied how to teach people to enjoy the great outdoors, and provide you with the finest and most diversified techniques of progressively mastering the art and science of being accomplished and successful in the sport of fly fishing. SPEY FISHING: Casting to Fly Presentation: Be introduced, or develop to the spey casts that will provide the tools and foundation for you to fly cast for trout or steelhead/salmon. Whether you are an introductory, or skilled fly caster we will cover and review the casts that build into the spey casts upon one another, in a progressive manner, so you will have a complete overview of what makes up spey casting. Those casts will be: the "C" spey, Double spey, Poke, Switch Cast, Single Spey, and Snake Roll. Through going through these casts in a progressive building manner, you will be able to determine, with our assistance, at what level you would like to proceed to develop your spey casting and fishing skills.

For the "introductory to beginning" spey caster, we will take the parts of those casts you were introduced to, to provide and build upon an understanding of the foundation principles that makes up spey casts; this will enable you to cast and fish on both sides of the river whatever the wind or river current direction. We will show and discuss the slight differences in the Traditional, Scandinavian, and Skagit methods of spey casting / fishing.

For the "intermediate to advanced" caster we will focus on improving your understanding, use, and combining of the various spey casts used in the Skagit, Scandinavian, and Traditional methods, to develop casting and fishing skill that will work to form your style of spey fly fishing.

It is recommended that you bring a SINGLE HANDED ROD, preferable no heavier than a 6 wt., with a fly line TWO SIZES OVER, the line weight size indicated on your single handed fly rod--- in addition to the type of rod you plan on casting with. Extra equipment will be available to try out the various methods of spey casting. NOTE: The spey casts covered in these sessions will work for single handed rods, switch rods, and double handed rods.

We offer both one and two day schools, which can be taken separately, or on consecutive days. The first day starts out with an overview of included handouts on the equipment and casts used in spey fishing. It is on the banks of the river, progressing from the grass to flat water,enabling you to be able to cast on both sides of the river, with either a upstream or downstream wind direction. Depending on the casters progress if time permits we will advance to moving water. {NOTE: You will learn faster on flat water, because you will not have to wait for the current to carry your line downstream before you can do another cast, for whatever side of the river you will be on!} The casters focus, progress, and skill level, will help determine how fast we move from an all floating line to the use of sink tips.

The second day we progress to moving water, either by walking and wading, or by floating the river in a drift boat or pontoon boat, so we can wade to various spots to develop and apply what we have learned to actual fishing conditions for both sides of the river. This will also include the use of sinking tips, and sinking lines for the method of spey casting you have chosen, or would like to further improve your skills to the varied forms of Skagit, Scandinavian, and Traditional methods of spey fishing. Spey equipment will be provided, or bring your own.