Shooting Trout With An Elephant Gun

15 comments / Posted on August 1, 2023 / by Louis Cahill

IF YOU’VE ADAPTED A SPEY OR SWITCH ROD TO SWING STREAMERS FOR TROUT YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE NUMBERS. You probably enjoy both the casting aspect and fishing for a grab. If you wanted to whack 'em and stack you’d have your indicator rod, or...

Saturday Shoutout / Mike’s Poke

No comments yet / Posted on January 21, 2017 / by Louis Cahill

The Perry Poke is a super efficient spey cast, useful to any two-hand angler. In this video skagit legend Mike McCune shows you how to make the Poke off your downstream shoulder. This is a great cast to have in your bag no matter what species...

New Tippet Leaders and Lines From RIO

10 comments / Posted on March 25, 2016 / by Louis Cahill

Stronger tippet, trout spey lines and new light line trout tapers from RIO in 2016. The new Power Flex Plus nylon leader and tippet material is the big news from RIO this year. There are a lot of details but the big picture is a much...

The Echo SR Switch, Trout Spey Gets Serious

5 comments / Posted on January 20, 2015 / by Louis Cahill

I love chasing trout with two-hand rods. If you haven't figured this out yet, I'm a total fly rod nerd. Switch rods are somewhere near the top of the list of stuff I geek out about. I only need the flimsiest of excuses to start Spey...