Switch vs Spey, with Pete Kutzer

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

I get repeated questions about switch vs. Spey: people interested in two-handed fly fishing but not sure which setup they need. Even though I think I have answered this question before, I thought it was time for a fresh look so I asked the incomparable Pete Kutzer, YouTube star and Orvis casting instructor, for his advice. Pete is a very serious two-handed angler and just got back from a couple steelhead rivers on the West Coast, so the topic was fresh in his mind. I hope it helps to answer some of your questions. In the Fly Box this week, questions are wide-ranging--casting accuracy, dropper flies tangling, flashing trout, Atlantic salmon guides, and trout short-striking streamers. Plus an interesting tip on what may be an interesting way of sharpening hooks.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Reed Bryant host of the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast.
0:05.0	If you're a bird hunter, clay shooter, or a gun dog enthusiast you should check on my show.
0:10.3	Look up the Orvis Hunting and Shooting shooting podcast on iTunes and subscribe today.
0:16.7	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer bringing you
0:22.3	tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water.
0:27.0	Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:34.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide
0:38.0	podcast.
0:39.0	This podcast is being recorded on October 10th, 2017.
0:46.6	And a little bit later in the podcast,
0:49.5	we'll be having an interview with the great Pete Kutzer, casting instructor extraordinary and
0:57.0	he's going to be talking about switch versus spay fishing this time of year a lot of
1:01.9	people are getting ready to go steelhead fishing and
1:06.3	They want to know the difference of they want to know whether they should get a switch rod or a spay rod and
1:14.8	What the differences are what the advantages and disadvantages are so Pete and I will try to go through those for you. But first
1:20.8	let's take some questions from the flybox. The first one is an email from
1:28.8	Daniel. Not sure where Daniel is from. Recently I was fishing in heavily fish trout waters around Mount Airy, North Carolina.
1:39.0	I was using the typical black woolly bugger.
1:42.0	I cast it out and slowly started stripping it back in. I would see the
1:45.6	trout dart directly at the fly. It would chase it around for a few seconds and then dart
1:50.2	back out of sight without taking the fly. This happened five or six times.
1:54.7	Could this be because of how heavily fish the river is?
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