Spey Casting East Coast

[brian pilcher]

So does anyone spey cast on the east coast for saltwater, stripers or carp?

[andrew stoehr]

I lived in CT until a year ago, and yes, you see it now and then, especially when the stripers come up the rivers.

[Michael Exl]

You can do it for carp.
http://speypages.com/speyclave/showthread.php?t=38853

Most of the guys that I know from out East are using two-handers for overhead casting like Andrew said.

[anonymous]

Get a 7wt switch rod.

[Zach Matthews]

Yes, I was actually swinging a spey for stripers today.

[andrew stoehr]

Oops. My post should have read “all my carp fishing” not “all might…”

What I meant was that all of the carp fishing I’ve done has been of a type where I don’t think a two-hander would be a particularly good tool.

The stripers in Long Island Sound, where I fished, would follow herring up rivers, so much of the fishing was very repetitive “across and swing down…repeat until exhausted”, where a two-hander with true spey casts would have a lot of good applications.

[Randy Kadish]

It’s very hard to set up an anchor in the surf.

Randy

[brian pilcher]

Cool! Know what’s on the birthday wish list!

[Zach Matthews]

Check out the SA Mastery Skagit Extreme line; it’s a good one to get started with because you can chunk out an 80′ roll cast and at least fish while you learn.

Zach

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