I just bought an 8 wieght with the hopes of fooling a steely with it.I figure the bigest problem is going to be getting the fly down to the winterrun.I realy debated about conventional or spey.It was some good old boys down at goodings that talked me out of the whole spey.They basicly said if I wanted to go fly fishing buy a fly rod.If I wanted to go drift fishing with a fly pole get a spey.I finally saw a spey in action this weekend.I don't agree with those boys any more.Looks to me like a spey is the answer to fishing steely's on the west end.Especialy when your banking it.Seems to get rid of the whole casting in the tree's problem too.Damned expensive though.Congrads on the steey's.