Spey Fishing Steelhead with John Hazel
Spey casting DVD's have been appearing quite regularly the last few years. However, until now there really hasn't been any instructional DVD's on what to do with your Spey casting skills once you have acquired them. Well Gene Hering, of Cascade Mediaworks, has teamed up with John Hazel, a Spey casting instructor and guide on the Deschutes River, to remedy this situation. The result is a seventy minute DVD clearly explaining and illustrating how to fish for steelhead with a Spey rod and Spey casts. The DVD covers how to read steelhead water allowing you to fish the productive parts of rivers and eliminate the areas unlikely to have steelhead present. Also explained are the habits of steelhead and how these traits help determine how to work the water and what type of fly and presentation to use. John explains and shows how to choose and fish waking flies, skating flies, subsurface flies, and wet flies. He also shows examples of each type of fly and discusses color selection, how to rig the various types of flies, and what terminal knots he has found most suitable. Fishing with both floating as well as sink tip fly lines is shown. The cinematography compliments the instruction beautifully. The cameramen clearly are well versed in shooting outdoors over water. The DVD has clear, easy to watch images which allow you to concentrate on John and what he is saying and doing. And the high angle shots give the viewer a clear and sometimes startling view of how a steelhead reacts to the fly. Each steelhead fly fisherman has his pet theory on how steelhead track and attack flies, but this DVD will allow you to hear directly from the steelhead. This information alone is worth the cost of admission. After mastering the basic casting techniques of John and Amy Hazelï¿½s Spey Casting DVD and practicing so you can comfortably cast 90 to 100 feet you need something to do with your new skills. Well John Hazel provides you with the answer and how to attain success. This is definitely a DVD every fly fisherman who chases steelhead with a Spey rod, or dreams of doing so, will want in his personal library to view and review many times.  © 2006 Bruce E Harang --Fly Fishing Website beaucatcher.com