If I can see salmon when fishing dry flies (as opposed to blind casting for salmon), I use a Sage 9-foot for a 7-weight rod with an 8-weight line. At 35 feet, a single-handed rod is more accurate ...

Fishing for Atlantic salmon--the cast after cast, ... relays his tale of hooking a fish that snapped his 14-foot spey rod in two. ... and Montgomery and I toss flies through perfect runs.

Flyfishing with a spey rod on the Salmon River. Zack Brooks, of Pittsford, shows Outdoors Editor David Figura how to flyfish using a spey rod on the Salmon River. The two-handed rod is much longer ...

Traditional Spey fishing is closely associated with steelhead, salmon, and big rivers. It's a popular fly fishing technique in the Pacific Northwest that requires long rods, special lines, and ...

Flyfishing with a spey rod on the Salmon River. Zach Brooks (above) points out that fishing with a spey, or two-handed fly rod has its advantages. “You can cast farther and cover more territory ...

Provided Share Christian Orlando added to “quite a year,” as his dad Joe put it, with his first Atlantic salmon. The 13-year-old eighth-grader from Western Springs caught his landlocked ...

It takes the 61-year-old Nolte four hours to tie one of his fully dressed Atlantic salmon flies. His finished flies are works of art that will never see a river or feel the teeth of a fish.