There’s a scene in the movie “A River Runs Through It” where the stand-in for actor Brad Pitt, Jerry Siem, is casting his fly line in a perfect candy cane loop while standing on a rock in the middle ...

Minneapolis - If you live long enough, the past comes 'round and meets the future, completing a circle. So it is with Bob Nasby, the St. Paul fly fisherman and casting instructor. Perhaps also, Nasby ...

Imagine a fly rod with virtually no back cast and the ability to shoot line clear across the river. It's a set up that rarely gets tangled, requires little strength or effort - a place where the ...

Matt Jordan, of Gnesen Township, rips his line across the water while demonstrating the technique of casting with a small spey rod. The annual Brule Spey Day is set for Sept. 9 with demonstrations, ...

Any angler who happened to see Matt Jordan on the Lester River on Tuesday afternoon might have wondered what he was doing. He appeared to be steelhead fishing. That much was true. But the way the ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CRAIG – The fly line traced the edge of the water as Whitney Gould found the precise angle, ...

Last week, I mentioned in this column that my wife, Jan, and I just returned from a 14-day cruise around the British Isles. I mentioned that we were going to visit Loch Ness in the Highlands of ...

The River Spey, famous worldwide as one of the “Big Four” Salmon rivers in Scotland, is most well known as the birthplace of the Spey cast. While this iconic two-handed cast is an important part of ...

East Rosebud Fly Shop is hosting a trout spey casting clinic on Saturday, Aug. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The class instructor will be Kurt Kruger, who represents the company who makes Sage and ...