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Reel Recommendations | Spey Pages I own and use a lot of spey reels Thanks to my inexpensive battery-powered multi-setting food scale, I have records of what each reel weighs, usually empty and loaded What a spey reel plus lines weighs isn't critical, except at light or heavy extremes Weighing reels lines keeps my choices in the comfortable middle
Favorite rod line pairings | Spey Pages RIO Spey Long 78 - 620 grains at 64' plus mono-leader on a Nautilus 12S > Quantum 16'7" 7wt RIO Spey Long 78 - 620 grains at 64' plus mono-leader on a Nautilus 12S > Walker 8wt 13'6" - 6pc (travel steelhead-salmon) BridgeWintertide 89 - 550 grains at 32' + 10' 75 grain tips on a Stewart Reel > Walker 8wt 16'6" (the long 8wt)
Advice on choosing between Echo trout spey options I have and have had many Echo trout spey sized rods over the years and I would highly recommend the trout spey in a 2 wt, it handles a 200 or 225 gr OPST Commando with authority and can handle 20" + fish ! The trout spey series is a legitimate step up from the other rods in the Echo line up and is worth the extra $ in my opinion
Green King Spey | Spey Pages I fished this spey in three sizes exclusively for two weeks, on run first-passes and had great luck in spring, pre-feshet waters My confidence was through the roof afterwards to say the least- I never leave home without at least two, one for the river gods and one for wishful thinking beautiful hackle choice too Adrian
SOR 2025 Impressions | Spey Pages And stayed through the Sunday finals and awards ceremony I was there as a spectator and student, to watch and study spey casting (I appreciate the critique that “spey casting” is an inexact or incorrect label, but language is made through usage and I think the contemporary usage makes sense for this event
36 Running Lines Evaluated | Spey Pages See the attached PDF chart along with an explanatory page for an attempt to evaluate 36 different running lines Close to everything was tested, from cheap braid and mono to expensive lines like Verivas, Hazumi, and Monic The major brands included are Rio, SA, Cortland, Airflo, Sunset and
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