Product Details

• Actors: John Hazel
• Directors: Gene Hering
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cascade Mediaworks
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2005
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CR7U9K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,212 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Spey casting DVD's have been appearing quite regularly the last few years. However, until now there really hasn't been any instructional DVD's on what to do with your Spey casting skills once you have acquired them. Well Gene Hering, of Cascade Mediaworks, has teamed up with John Hazel, a Spey casting instructor and guide on the Deschutes River, to remedy this situation. The result is a seventy minute DVD clearly explaining and illustrating how to fish for steelhead with a Spey rod and Spey casts. The DVD covers how to read steelhead water allowing you to fish the productive parts of rivers and eliminate the areas unlikely to have steelhead present. Also explained are the habits of steelhead and how these traits help determine how to work the water and what type of fly and presentation to use. John explains and shows how to choose and fish waking flies, skating flies, subsurface flies, and wet flies. He also shows examples of each type of fly and discusses color selection, how to rig the various types of flies, and what terminal knots he has found most suitable. Fishing with both floating as well as sink tip fly lines is shown. The cinematography compliments the instruction beautifully. The cameramen clearly are well versed in shooting outdoors over water. The DVD has clear, easy to watch images which allow you to concentrate on John and what he is saying and doing. And the high angle shots give the viewer a clear and sometimes startling view of how a steelhead reacts to the fly. Each steelhead fly fisherman has his pet theory on how steelhead track and attack flies, but this DVD will allow you to hear directly from the steelhead. This information alone is worth the cost of admission. After mastering the basic casting techniques of John and Amy Hazel�s Spey Casting DVD and practicing so you can comfortably cast 90 to 100 feet you need something to do with your new skills. Well John Hazel provides you with the answer and how to attain success. This is definitely a DVD every fly fisherman who chases steelhead with a Spey rod, or dreams of doing so, will want in his personal library to view and review many times. © 2006 Bruce E Harang --Fly Fishing Website beaucatcher.com

Product Description

SPEY FISHING STEELHEAD with John Hazel. Practical and Detailed Lessons on Spey Fishing Steelhead. Casting ... Line Control ... Fly Presentations ... Mending ... Hooking ... Playing ... Landing. SUBJECTS ARE PRESENTATIONS, READING WATER, SKATERS, WORKING THE RUN, SUB SURFACE, STEELHEAD HABITS, WET FLIES, FLY SELECTIONS. VIDEO HAS EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF STEELHEAD TAKING FLIES. 120 Minutes GLASS MASTERED DVD. Techniques for fishing skaters, sub-surface patterns, and wet flies are all part of this instructional. John will outline his system for fly selection, demonstrate his favorite knots for tying them on, and go over leader and tippet configurations. You will also discover what water is best for fishing a particular style of fly, and how to fish a sink tip fly line if the situation calls for it. Most importantly, you will learn how to catch steelhead with spey gear in this complete 90 minute production. John will show you precisely how to properly present a variety of patterns in a number of water types. Flats, pockets, ledges, boulders, riffles and big water are all covered. And you ll get help on understanding fish habits, reading the water, and how to methodically fish a run.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hook More Steelhead, April 15, 2008

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J. McCracken (Clarkston, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spey Fishing Steelhead with John Hazel (DVD)

This DVD is an excellent compliment to John & Amy Hazel's spey casting DVD's. Once you can get your fly out in the river with a two-handed rod, John covers everything you need to know to hook steelhead. This is good, practical instruction from one of the most experienced spey guides & teachers out there. I think almost anyone will pick up some useful tips. John discusses leaders, knots & flies and then fishes a few runs showing how to cover the water with surface skaters, wet flies and droppers. Thorough attention is given to likely holding water and steelhead behavior on the take. Great video!

This DVD will be most helpful for beginner and intermediate steelhead fly fishers but also for advanced students of the sport who can't get enough.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Information on Deschutes steelhead holding water and methods, January 11, 2007

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M. Klee - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spey Fishing Steelhead with John Hazel (DVD)

Particularly useful if you fish the Deschutes for Summer steelhead. There is very little attention given to spey casting techniques as it is mostly addressing steelhead holding water. A little time is given to knots and flies, but most of the time is devoted to watching John fish. I would recomend it if you are heading to the Deschutes this summer.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spey Fishing Steelhead with John Hazel, January 15, 2007

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R. Luyk - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spey Fishing Steelhead with John Hazel (DVD)

THIS DVD HAS THE MOST INFO FOR SPEY FISHING THAT I'VE CAME ACROSS. RATING THIS WITH 5 STAR, DOES NOT DO THIS DVD ANY GOOD. IT SHOULD BE RATED ABOUT 70 TO 80 ON THE SCALE THAT IS PROVIDED.