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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaq View Post
    True spey flies were developed by the tiers and fishermen from Scotland who fished the River Spey. Most "Spey flies" had no tail (There are exceptions: The Lady Caroline being the most recognized spey fly that sports a tail), a slim body, a long flowing body hackle of primarily of the now extinct Spey **** or Heron body feather (Now illegal for use in the US), a collar and a wing of Bronzed Mallard. The wings are tented over the body of the fly, not to pass the bend of the hook.

    Then, if you fish any river but the Spey, you are not Spey fishing, or, in the colloquial but not yet universal in the dictionaries, spey fishing.
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    Nope just swinging for the tug, for it is the drug...

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    I'm pretty sure that in Scotland we'd be disemboweled for even using the term "spey fishing." It is a river, a style of casting, and a style of fly tying. It is not a rod, it is not fishing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DNRoch View Post
    Nope just swinging for the tug, for it is the drug...
    That is the pragmatic approach to 'splay' fishing...
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    Quote Originally Posted by flyguy View Post
    I'm pretty sure that in Scotland we'd be disemboweled for even using the term "spey fishing." It is a river, a style of casting, and a style of fly tying. It is not a rod, it is not fishing.

    Please get your pets spayed and neutered....
    Beyond Hadrian's wall lies the Spey, splayed out soley for splay fishing...

    If you place upon your spey a thing a ma bobber to enhance the play of the bait beneath the surface of the river Spey, what then would the barbarian scots say?
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    Quote Originally Posted by shotnoyz View Post
    Beyond Hadrian's wall lies the Spey, splayed out soley for splay fishing...

    If you place upon your spey a thing a ma bobber to enhance the play of the bait beneath the surface of the river Spey, what then would the barbarian scots say?
    That's great!! you splaya-hate-a you
    You need flies.....I got them!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by flyguy View Post
    I'm pretty sure that in Scotland we'd be disemboweled for even using the term "spey fishing." It is a river, a style of casting, and a style of fly tying. It is not a rod, it is not fishing.

    This quote should be a sticky in this forum. A lot of guys misuse the term without regards to history.

    You can cast light weight spoons with a double handed rod but that doesn't mean it is a spey fly.

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    Let's examine this in a different context.. If I use a Rapala with a spinning rod, most would be OK saying I am 'spin fishing', even though I do not have a spinner on the line.

    I conclude that in the present day, USA, Salmon River NY vernacular, the term 'spey rod' is synonymous with 'two-handed rod', and doesn't say anything about what...

    OMG I can't believe I was actually going to write something serious about this.. I need to get a life.. or more of a life!


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    Quote Originally Posted by SteelieStudent View Post
    Let's examine this in a different context.. If I use a Rapala with a spinning rod, most would be OK saying I am 'spin fishing', even though I do not have a spinner on the line.

    I conclude that in the present day, USA, Salmon River NY vernacular, the term 'spey rod' is synonymous with 'two-handed rod', and doesn't say anything about what...

    OMG I can't believe I was actually going to write something serious about this.. I need to get a life.. or more of a life!

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