Presentations

Presentations Begin At 9AM

 

9am:  Andrew Moy.

Beginning Casting and Spey Basics

Anchors, D-loops, and Powerstrokes.  What does it all mean?  Drew will demystify the spey cast in terms everyone can understand.

10 am:  Peter Charles

Distance Casting for the Average Spey Caster

Distance casting gets a bad rap as it’s often associated more with big egos than fishing.    The old golf expression about, “Drive for show, putt for dough.” seems to fit the attitude most take to distance casting.

11 am:  Neil Houlding

Techniques for Sinking Lines

Learn how to manipulate sinking lines and full sinking shooting heads to present flies to fish in cold water

 

12 pm:  LUNCH!

1pm:  Rick Kustich

Swinging Flies In The Great Lakes

A discussion about the casts and techniques unique to the Great Lakes

2pm: Walt Geryk

Swinging Vs Tracking the Fly

Walt will be discussing several technigues to gain optimal presentation and fly speed of your fly.

3pm:  Zack Brooks

Basic Skagit Casting techniques and casts

Zack will cover a variety of topics including Skagit Double Spey, Downstream Poke and regular Perry Poke.  This will include proper stance, speed of sweep, and casting angles.  Zack will also cover casting/fishing heavy tip/fly combos on light 5/6 wt rods

 

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Neil Houlding (Guideline)

Techniques for Sinking Lines

Learn how to manipulate sinking lines and full sinking shooting heads to present flies to fish in cold water

About Neil

Fly-fishing has always been Neil Houlding’s life long pursuit. By 18 years of age, Neil’s passion for a two-hand rod had already begun to coalesce.
He spent many hours honing his skills on rivers such as the Lune and Ribble not far from his home in Lancashire, England.
Moving to Canada, he continued his pursuit of fishing the fly. His travels have taken him as far as the Gaula River in Norway and the River Spey in Scotland.
Neil is an accomplished Guide, who is also a certified casting instructor with the Fly Fishing Federation,
Attaining the CI and THCI certification, and furthermore, coached the inaugural “World Youth Fly-Fishing Championships” in Wales.
Neil has applied his enthusiasm and ability as a teacher.

Peter Charles  (DTX Mackenzie)

Distance Casting for the Average Spey Caster

Distance casting gets a bad rap as it’s often associated more with big egos than fishing.    The old golf expression about, “Drive for show, putt for dough.” seems to fit the attitude most take to distance casting.

Yet the simple fact is — the ability to distance farther has many benefits, including catching more fish.  We should develop our distance casting abilities, not for ego gratification nor for competition, but rather to effectively and easily deal with common fishing situations.

Being able to distance cast with low effort lets the older angler to make distance casts without blowing out old shoulders.  Being able to distance casting makes for easy sharply angled downstream presentations needed to achieve a very slow swing in cold water.  It may eliminate our need to wade deep, or when we have to, distance casting still lets us get a decent amount of line out.  On those days when only average distances are needed, the same casting technique makes for low fatigue, low stress outings.

Scott Mackenzie is a former three time world Spey casting champion and he developed a style of casting suitable for chucking long lines on big rods, to cover the big distances needed to fish the lies on the broad River Ness.  My session will cover the Mackenzie style of casting and how it can be adapted to shorter rods and lines to fish our rivers.  The Mackenzie style cast lets the average Spey caster achieve 100’+ casts using short head and mid-belly lines on rods in the 12‘-14′ range, without blowing up our shoulders or exhausting ourselves.

About Peter Charles

Probably the best way to describe Peter’s approach to fishing, it is that of a passionate analyst.  He has a fervent interest in all aspects of the sport, from lines, to casting, flies, presentation, to the biology of fish and the hydrodynamics of the world they live in.   He caught his first fish on a fly in 1969 and has been hooked by the sport ever since.

He has poured his experience, his analytical approach, and his passion into his extensive website at www.hooked4life.ca.

Peter pioneered the use of the Scandinavian technique to catch Great Lakes steelhead and salmon.  Through his website, teaching, demonstrations and writing he has been instrumental in spreading this method throughout the Great Lakes region and Canada in general.

Peter is currently pro staff for Scott MacKenzie DTX rods out of the UK.  He has also been both a fly fishing sales representative and a pro staff for a Scandinavian fly fishing company.

Zack Brooks  (River Time Guide Service)

Basic Skagit Casting techniques and casts

Zack will cover a variety of topics including Skagit Double Spey, Downstream Poke and regular Perry Poke.  This will include proper stance, speed of sweep, and casting angles.  Zack will also cover casting/fishing heavy tip/fly combos on light 5/6 wt rods

About Zack

Spey and Skagit casting instruction based fly fishing is what we are about. From beginners to advanced casters we cover it all. If you are looking to swing flies on two handed rods, you are at the right place! No bobbers, lead, or nymphing here. Just swung flies on two handed rods, sinktips jacked by Skagit lines, click and pawl reels, and chasing everything from Steelhead and Salmon to small steam trout

Rick Kustich  (http://www.rickkustich.com/index.html)

Rick Kustich is a fly fishing author and photographer. Rick has written  four books including the acclaimed Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead which was co-authored with his brother Jerry. Rick’s work has appeared in numerous national and regional publications. He is also a fly tyer and seminar speaker and has produced a fly tying DVD. For ten years Rick owned a fly shop business in western New York.

Rick began fly fishing over thirty years ago on the lakes and streams of upstate New York. He has since traveled extensively to experience the finest fly fishing throughout North America but continues to find that some of the best fishing often exists in your own backyard. Rick spends a significant amount of time each year on the water and has developed a special passion for steelhead fishing in the Great Lakes and British Columbia.

Walt Geryk (Northeast Guide Service)

Swinging Vs Tracking the Fly

Walt will be discussing several technigues to gain optimal presentation and fly speed of your fly.

About Walt

Walt is a Hardy & Greys Endorsed Fly & Spey Fishing Guide and Instructor who will be your host for Professional how-to, where-to guiding for Salmon, Steelhead & Trout in Beautiful Upstate New York & Majestic Tail Water & Mt. Stream Trout in Western Massachusetts.  Since 1985, Walt has been promoting traditional fly fishing with catch & release for the Salmon River Region New York and the Deerfield River in Western Massachusetts. The leader for Traditional Fly and Spey Fishing Guide serving these areas.

Andrew Moy (Tight Lines Fly shop/East Coast Spey)

Beginning Casting and Spey Basics

Anchors, D-loops, and Powerstrokes.  What does it all mean?  Drew will demystify the spey cast in terms everyone can understand.

About Andrew Moy

Andrew Moy has a passion for fly fishing. This passion has lead him to an addiction; casting and fishing with two-hand rods. In search of two-handed water, Andrew has traveled to Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes and throughout the Northeast in pursuit of Atlantic salmon, steelhead, trout and striped bass. With Andrew’s patience and knowledge of two hand casting, you will be ensured a productive day on the water. Andrew is also the owner of Tight Lines Fly Shop in Pine Brook, NJ