OK, lets get some of us together for a fly/spoon ONLY day. I love both, some love one or the other but they are both solid styles to hook chrome on. Time and place TBD...cheers

I agree with you Summerun. I to love both spoon and spey fishing. While i try to split it up evenly during the winter, I just cant do it... Spey and switch rods have been making an appearance more often than not the last few winters.

Sounds awesome!


Wait...


Who gets to go first?

Flies go first and get the enjoyment of watching the spoon pick up a fish behind them...

Ahhh, the ol' BC special.

To make it fair the 1st Annual SpoonFly needs to be in April when the water warms, flies will hold their own if we are all wading and swinging.

What's fair got to do with it? Anyone who would make a contest out of fly fishing clearly doesn't understand fly fishing.

And isn't fishing with both fly and spoon considered bi? Not that there's any thing wrong with that, of course.

Meanwhile, let's see if Stam gets hold of some Intruders and starts taking casting lessons. Given the forecasts for this winter, that could be the most enjoyable part.

Sg

Nice

Fish on...

Todd

Seems like the hardware fish would have to be valued at .5 or .3 to make it fair.

The best part will be when I pull out a chromer behind Todd on a swung fly...

Thanks! I just spit coffee all over my computer screen.

I think that would be very likely to happen...'bout as likely as the Coogs winning by 30 on Saturday...I mean, not 100% impossible, but not something I'd hang my hat on, either.

Fish on...

Todd

Hardware chuckin' fly fishers. gotta love it!!
Good luck!

I hereby sign up as the first registrant for the first annual SpoonFly Festival.
Too much fun!

Every spey fisherman I know has at least one Dick Nite in their fly box...and there are several who fish northern BC who now have Rvrfshr spoons in their flyboxes, after they asked me for some

Fish on...

Todd

Todd,

Now let's not be tellin' falsehoods. You know me. And I do not have any Dick Nites in any of my fly boxes. I do, however, have Dick Nites in my Dick Nite box, but I don't use them on Spey rods or any fly rods, though I hear they work OK. I have a very light and sensitive Daiwa spinning rod ($30 at Sportco) for Dick Nite backup, should I encounter some finicky coho somewhere. I know that spinning rod is going to bust in a thousand pieces one day, but so far I'd have to rate it as the best value I've ever gotten from a piece of fishing tackle.)

Rvrfshr spoons for their Spey rods? You serious? That's some serious weight, but maybe with a 750 gn Skagit head like Stam found it's doable.

Sg

No Dick Nites here either Toff Ripley...but that is an interesting idea to chucknduck a light spoon on my 9wt spey, gonna give that a shot in honor of this thread. Cheers

That's actually a pretty deadly method.

OK I am talking totally out of my non mouth body orifice here, but I think I could just cast a spoon with a fly rod without a lot of trouble. Strip off some line, short tippet, and load the rod on the back cast with the spoon and then let 'er fly just releasing the stripped line.

It's the kind of thing I would have done as a kid, and now that I feel more like a kid than I have since I was a kid, maybe I'll try it.

And maybe I'll try dropping a spoon under a bobber float and trotting it down a slot like a plug.

Have we figured out a date and location for the SpoonFly Festival yet?

Assuming Skagit system is toast this spring, I would say an OP river in March makes the most sense...we could floatilla a river and still have a few days to go do our own thing.

Im in, who else?