Understanding Spey Lines - Complete Overview

[@jackdiebag8996]

I want to thank you for your very clear explanation of lines and especially poles since this is the first time I have heard about pole characteristic to affect the cast. I only lake fish but enjoy learning new casting techniques. Since I'm still young, (81) I have time to practice. (grin)

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks so much for watching!!!

[@ipod1978]

Very good video, very informative

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks as always for watching!

[@jimholland1592]

Nicely said 😉

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks for being here.

[@k9er233]

Well explained, thanks for the info!

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@jdouglasj2000]

When you say, “this line takes certain tips…” What is a “tip”? Is that the leader?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Please contact the shop via phone or e-mail with your questions and they will be happy to help. Thanks.

[@rushthezeppelin]

The tip is essentially something that completes the line package and allows you to fish different depths. You can have anything from a floating to a fast sinking tip depending on the line type and the depth you need to present. Typically floating and intermediate tips are going to be used on a scandi (although in the places where scandi comes from they sometimes have systems that have intermediate going to full sink heads). Scandis don't always use tips though and sometimes the "tip" is integrated into the head. For faster sinking tips these are typically going to be a skagit setup as they cast better when they are sticking to the water to load the rod. Also the skagit head itself is better at turning over these heavier tips that will typically be carrying larger flies. On the end of a tip you can then have a leader. Usually with skagit that leader is going to be short level tippet (typically 4' or so). With scandi there are a couple of different schools of thought. If you are using a full floating system (which is typically what you encounter with scandi and they are often one line without a tip) you can either use something like a polyleader or an extremely long tapered mono leader. I personally prefer the long mono leader when fishing scandi as you tend to blow your anchor a lot less. I know he said in the video he wanted to keep things simple but to be honest there is a lot of complexity in the two handed world and many different schools of thought. Hopefully this helped and didn't just confuse you more lol, it took me a couple of years of research just to understand all of this simply in the context of trout spey.