I’m a displaced steelhead rainbow & brown trout guy from Great Lakes Canada! Living next to Gulf Stream (biggest river in the world), love my ocean but miss my rivers, especially the Niagara river. You are awesome kudos!
Between your browns and rainbows in the streams and the beauty of your country and the size of the fish in the canals, You would have to go to Alaska to equal what you have. The salmon are awesome on the swing, scary strong. Your water is technical enough to keep you keen. You make brilliant vids! Have you caught a billfish on a fly?
Brilliant! Glad this is catching on down NZ way! I have the same line on my 3 wt OPST micro Spey which landed a 22” Rainbow on the Yakima River Last weekend. Love the channel, keep it coming! PS- single Spey here in the US is a particular type of continuous motion cast. Single-handed Spey is how you’ve set up Frank. Lots of respect and admiration to you. Cheers!
What a badass fish, Alex! Super cool to see you catch that on the swing. Thank you for the tips! Planning to try this set up over the weekend out on the Owyhee river in Oregon. 🤞
@@TrippinOnTrout I ended up having a fantastic day yesterday. Spent most of the day using size 20 zebra nymphs very productively but swung streamers for a few hours. Had a couple takes on the swing and came so freakin close to landing my biggest brown ever! Had to of been close to 25 inches. I'm hooked on the swing for sure. It's super exciting to instantly feel the fish hit it. On par with the excitement of seeing a fish take a dry fly. Thank you for all the tips using that technique, Alex! It really helped and was a blast 🙂
Love the informative video! Is this a setup you could do some messy tight line nymphing with? I really enjoy tight line nymphing but wanted to have a setup that I could also Spey cast and swing streamers in certain portions of rivers where it is a lot wider.
Great content as always. Love to use the single hander for spey. Soft hackles are z gas too in summer. Small quibble: "Single Spey" for the spey community is a specific cast; "single-hand spey" is the set up you're using.
Hi Alex, very informative, thx for sharing. Which pack of sonar polyleaders is that, 7’ or 10‘? I am using a 9´ rod too. What length of polyleader do you recommend?
Thanks for the informative video Alex. I haven't tried this type of fishing before, but will do so when the conditions are right. Our water levels are rather low this year in Colorado, so may have to wait until next year. Does this type of fishing produce in the Summer as well? If not, why not?
I know these are different fish than what I will be fishing for, but do you find that steelhead have days where they prefer a swing over a nymph rig? Is there a good way to tell when they just aren’t feeling the swing?
Yeah there are def days when fish are aggressive and will smash streamers hard. Usually when the water levels are up a bit and some colour in it. I’d you are fishing well and covering water and not getting hits then maybe you should consider switching things up. Just keep messing around til you work it out!
Shit. Hut the wrong fcuking button.lol.🤜🤛....where was I. Yes. Keep up the fab content. I hopeful will be out on the fly this weekend coming so getting gear and leaders sorted and flys to.
Hi Alex, very helpful information, im heading off to the Tongariro in 11 days have never done any spey fishing will it be to early in the autumn/winter to give this a crack. Do you always fish with only 4' leader Cheers Mike
@@TrippinOnTrout have you used the lighter core polyleader (12lb) at all? Thinking about trying it with my wf6f mastery trout for getting my game changers a bit deeper. I feel like the 24lb core is going to be too beefy for the line.
Here to remind people that if they bought a EURO nymph rod and don’t use it much they should think about single spey on it. I own multiple 3wt 10ft CZNs and I use a 150gr head in float and intermediate w/ tips. Absolute blast.
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Great info! There's more in these short videos of yours than in hours of others.
Great to hear!
I’m a displaced steelhead rainbow & brown trout guy from Great Lakes Canada! Living next to Gulf Stream (biggest river in the world), love my ocean but miss my rivers, especially the Niagara river. You are awesome kudos!
Would love to go for steelhead!! One day man🤙🤙
Between your browns and rainbows in the streams and the beauty of your country and the size of the fish in the canals, You would have to go to Alaska to equal what you have. The salmon are awesome on the swing, scary strong. Your water is technical enough to keep you keen. You make brilliant vids! Have you caught a billfish on a fly?
@@colingordon2305 Alaska would be epic I reckon. Maybe I’ll get there some day, I hope so. And as for Billfish….no but they are on my list for sure.
Great friday filler vid and tips mate! Thanks
Swinging rocks !
Great info 👍 Thx
Awesome Alex. Been wonding about this. Nice easy cheap way to set up. Appreciated muchly!
RIO Single Hand Spey line with 5ft Polyleader and you have a single hand Scandi setup for swinging soft hackle flies in summer
Was hoping you'd go over this. Looks like a blast.
It’s a good time!!
Another great video. Some really good information. Look forward to the day I can get out on the river and try it. Looks like a ton of fun. Thanks.
Perfect video. Thx. I’m in the process of converting my 8wt steelhead rid to saltwater salmon use. Just started shopping for a switch rod
great info , thanks mate
Hello from Ireland, brilliant videos keep them coming!
Cheers man!
great clip alex thoroughly enjoyed it
Thanks Ken, good on you mate 🤙
Excellent... thank you!
great one man. Love these videos. My new S/A line has that texture too, at first I thought it was a defect. cool idea.
Do you have an MPX?
Brilliant! Glad this is catching on down NZ way! I have the same line on my 3 wt OPST micro Spey which landed a 22” Rainbow on the Yakima River Last weekend. Love the channel, keep it coming!
PS- single Spey here in the US is a particular type of continuous motion cast. Single-handed Spey is how you’ve set up Frank.
Lots of respect and admiration to you.
Cheers!
Yeah someone else pulled me up on that too. My bad!!!🤦♂️
I am using 150grain OPST too! They are the trailblazers in this skagit game.
Always wanted to have a crack at a spey rod . Cheers
Thanks bro, very good overview and awesome fish! I'm still in struggle street with my spey fishing 🙄
Tomorrow it will happen for you bro!
What a badass fish, Alex! Super cool to see you catch that on the swing. Thank you for the tips! Planning to try this set up over the weekend out on the Owyhee river in Oregon. 🤞
Hope you get into a few. Lemme know how you go🤙
@@TrippinOnTrout I ended up having a fantastic day yesterday. Spent most of the day using size 20 zebra nymphs very productively but swung streamers for a few hours. Had a couple takes on the swing and came so freakin close to landing my biggest brown ever! Had to of been close to 25 inches. I'm hooked on the swing for sure. It's super exciting to instantly feel the fish hit it. On par with the excitement of seeing a fish take a dry fly. Thank you for all the tips using that technique, Alex! It really helped and was a blast 🙂
Great video ! Thanks for the info.
I'll have to give that a try here in Alberta. Except I don't like casting loops.
Love the informative video! Is this a setup you could do some messy tight line nymphing with? I really enjoy tight line nymphing but wanted to have a setup that I could also Spey cast and swing streamers in certain portions of rivers where it is a lot wider.
Must be something catching a trout that size with the current running so strong. Sure must give sour hands a workout. Thanks for Sharing!
Yeah it’s good fun alright 💥
Great content as always. Love to use the single hander for spey. Soft hackles are z gas too in summer.
Small quibble: "Single Spey" for the spey community is a specific cast; "single-hand spey" is the set up you're using.
Thanks for the correction🤙….I prob upset a lot of the Spey community there😆
Making mistakes is what I do best!
@@christiancherry1377 Cut from the same cloth than!
Brilliant
Hi Alex, very informative, thx for sharing. Which pack of sonar polyleaders is that, 7’ or 10‘? I am using a 9´ rod too. What length of polyleader do you recommend?
7 ft ones for single Spey bro🤙
What head are you using
Another smashing vlog Alex. I can't remember is your 5" rod a 9 ft. It's a age thing lol lol🤪🤪🤛🤜
Yeah bro, Frank is 9ft, 5 weight 🤙
Thanks for the informative video Alex. I haven't tried this type of fishing before, but will do so when the conditions are right. Our water levels are rather low this year in Colorado, so may have to wait until next year. Does this type of fishing produce in the Summer as well? If not, why not?
I can’t see why it wouldn’t mate, just never do it!🤷♂️
question : can you use the single handed spey for the emergent or the dry? love your videos !
Its possible but offers no advantages over a standar WF line. If you want to swing wet flies its great, otherwise stick with standard wf floating line
Great!
I know these are different fish than what I will be fishing for, but do you find that steelhead have days where they prefer a swing over a nymph rig? Is there a good way to tell when they just aren’t feeling the swing?
Yeah there are def days when fish are aggressive and will smash streamers hard. Usually when the water levels are up a bit and some colour in it.
I’d you are fishing well and covering water and not getting hits then maybe you should consider switching things up. Just keep messing around til you work it out!
Shit. Hut the wrong fcuking button.lol.🤜🤛....where was I. Yes. Keep up the fab content. I hopeful will be out on the fly this weekend coming so getting gear and leaders sorted and flys to.
Haha, I do that all the time!! Thanks for watching 🤙
Yep, that’s how you do it.
Hi Alex, very helpful information, im heading off to the Tongariro in 11 days have never done any spey fishing will it be to early in the autumn/winter to give this a crack. Do you always fish with only 4' leader
Cheers Mike
Nah I can
Fish that way all year round. Sometimes a longer leader is needed but 4/5 ft is a good go to length
I seem to only be seeing the Sonar leaders in 7ft or 10ft. Which do you mean?
7ft for single Spey stuff👍
@@TrippinOnTrout have you used the lighter core polyleader (12lb) at all? Thinking about trying it with my wf6f mastery trout for getting my game changers a bit deeper. I feel like the 24lb core is going to be too beefy for the line.
On the swing.....
Here to remind people that if they bought a EURO nymph rod and don’t use it much they should think about single spey on it.
I own multiple 3wt 10ft CZNs and I use a 150gr head in float and intermediate w/ tips. Absolute blast.
By the way man awesome video!! And a great bit of info for everyone. Look forward to one day booking a trip with you to swing
Thanks man, good tip and the best use for a euro rod IMO 😆
Don't you guys have a close season for trout?
Pretty much everywhere from end of April to Oct 1st
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