Irish Angler - All About The Fly

Are you double fisted yet?

While some might argue that properly executed Spey casts are the highest form of fly casting, we would probably all agree that these casts are visually compelling, personally gratifying, and a wonderful way to present a fly to a fish. For a collective 65 years, two Pacific Northwest Spey casters, Mike Kinney and Bob Meiser have perfected this art and have shared their knowledge through guiding, teaching, and perhaps most importantly, by designing a new line of Spey rods, the Deer Creek series of two-handed rods. The Deek Creek Series rods have casting properties that marry perfectly with modern Spey lines. They have a unique progressive-regressive traditional action making them ideal for executing all types of Spey and Skagit casts. These blanks are a beautiful translucent dark amethyst color with fittings and components selected by Mike and Bob.

Two handed rod designers Mike Kinney and Bob Meiser continue to expand the TFO Deer Creek series of fly rods with the introduction of the Deer Creek Switch Rod Series.

Bob Meiser has been in the forefront of popularizing and refining blank designs for the Switch Rod concept of fly rods since the mid 1990s.  His expertise with this unique family of rods is well established within the two handed rod community.  Bob’s original concept has been universally accepted over the past decade and teaming with Mike Kinney in design and application for these rods has now taken the concept to the next higher level.  We have used our proprietary Axiom material lay-up process for these blanks.  These are extremely light weight, durable, thoughtfully designed fly rods with superb performance … Best defined simply as: “Totally efficient delivery tools.”

 With a Switch Rod the caster can:

 1.     Utilize two handed overhead delivery, allowing the angler (if desired) to eliminate the physical burden of repetitive single hand double haul deliveries.

2.     Utilize all two handed classic anchor point Spey deliveries to eliminate the back cast associated with single hand overhead deliveries.

Bob has said of Switch Rods:  “Applications in total for this family of fly rods are limited only to the creativity of the angler.”  We at TFO agree with this, and look forward to the introduction of this refined series of fly rods to the creative angler.