Tip of the week: Staying tight in Trout Spey. The key to catching fish when trout spey fishing is to stay tight. In other words, you don’t want a lot of slack in your line while swinging your fly. It’s virtually impossible to detect a grab with slack in your line. The biggest challenge to staying tight is when you mend your line after a cast to achieve proper depth and proper presentation. We must present the fly so that it settles towards the bottom and then rises up and swings across. Staying

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