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I've been reading and listening to all the comments created on speypages for the past two to three years and have found the site to be humorous, insightful, and helpful. I have noticed that there is something out there that is leading this sport or this way of fishing away from it's roots. Away from all thing's that gave so much in the last two or three hundred years. The very thing's that we all fell in love with when we first had that light go on in our heads saying, (THIS MAKE'S SENSE). If it look's like duck, walk's like a duck, fly's like a duck, then IT'S A DUCK.
What I'm talking about is this new way of fishing that everyone in the great northwest is trying to sell as something new and exciting. The Skagit Style... There's a reason for doing what they do and it's called no fish! So the one man that has found a way to catch more than the next is saying."this is the new way for spey caster's to follow." OH PLEASE, just because they have let the gear fishmen, the meat eaters and the dam builders destroy their stocks now they want us to use gear instead of a fly. The rod manufacturers and the line manufacturers have all started to create new equiptment to handle this monstrosity of a fly that looks like a plug. Again, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it has to be a duck. As for me I will continue to hold fast to the traditional way of spey casting and fishing for Steelhead and Salmon. One that is so steep in the tradition of SPEY.
What I'm talking about is this new way of fishing that everyone in the great northwest is trying to sell as something new and exciting. The Skagit Style... There's a reason for doing what they do and it's called no fish! So the one man that has found a way to catch more than the next is saying."this is the new way for spey caster's to follow." OH PLEASE, just because they have let the gear fishmen, the meat eaters and the dam builders destroy their stocks now they want us to use gear instead of a fly. The rod manufacturers and the line manufacturers have all started to create new equiptment to handle this monstrosity of a fly that looks like a plug. Again, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it has to be a duck. As for me I will continue to hold fast to the traditional way of spey casting and fishing for Steelhead and Salmon. One that is so steep in the tradition of SPEY.