Wind knots are the bane of fishing braided line on spinning reels. Newcomers to braid often complain about getting wind knot after wind knot. After a day spent constantly re-rigging, frustration sets in and they go back to monofilament. It doesn’t have to be that way....
They say steelhead is a fish of a thousand casts. Army veteran Luke Thompson from Medford, Oregon spends over fifty days a year pursuing steelhead on the Rogue, Umpqua, Illinois, and Applegate rivers in southwestern Oregon. “Most of the time I swing spoons from the...
