What is Spey Fishing? Spey casts are change of direction casts that utilize water tension and allow you to cast from a downstream position to an upstream position without having to make a backcast. Great for making long casts around cover and obstacles.

What is Spey Fishing? Spey - 2 handed fly fishing

The most common Spey casts include the Single Spey

Double Spey

Circle/Snap-T

Snake Roll

With these casts, an angler will be able to make a cast in any river position and in any wind condition.

Spey casting originated in the heart of Scotland in the mid-1800s.

Have you heard of Ned: Ned’s Rig is a powerful finesse fishing tool for all kinds of fish and extremely different conditions. The technique uses an ultra light mushroom head jig. Usually something like a 1/10th ounce along with a spinning rod rigged with 6 or 8lb fluorocarbon.

• This thing catches everything that swims, so you might be in for the fight of a lifetime.

Z-MAN Pop Shadz Lures Review: This bait has a tendency to want to walk around on the hook. The trick to rigging this bait is to use a toothpick through the eye of the hook to hold it in place. This eliminates the bait moving around and causing headaches and anger.

Z-MAN Pop Shadz Lures is the latest in weedless topwaters.

Once the issue of the bait sliding down is resolved it will produce some nice fish for you. The weedless design makes it easy to throw it in areas you might be hesitant to throw a popper type bait with dangling treble hooks catching everything but bass. The Z-Man elastic design is tough and floats well. Very durable for sure. The light weight however can cause headaches casting into the wind on casting gear. The new Shimano Curado DC and its digital micro controller for the spool speed definitely helps out on backlashes for that situation.

Top 10 Bass Fishing Lures 2015: When looking for the next lure to tie on consider something off this list to increase the odds in your favor. Compiled below is a list of the top selling baits of 2015 and continue to stay on top of the leaderboard of personal best big fish by anglers around the globe.

Top 10 Bass Fishing Lures of 2015

Lucky Craft Pointer 100

A Secret Smile: Live worms a hidden secret?

A Secret Smile: Spent a week in the lovely state of Missouri on one of my favorites, Table Rock Lake.

This lake has been a gentle giant and full of bounty for our yearly family reunion.  This year was no different.

Within minutes of launching my boat at the Shell Knob Bridge I had begun the onslaught.  Only took 30 minutes and I had 20 fish in my boat using a live worms drop-shotted around the pylons. Tried getting it down to 25 foot but usually only made it 12ft or so before I had a 14-18" spotted bass well hooked.