Welcome to out new "Spey Web" here at Fly & Float. We're working on bringing you as much information on Spey Methods through articles and videos to help you get started. This exciting technique has grown in popularity on the Great Lakes Tributaries for steelhead and is growing at amazing rates. We're excited in our partnership with Will Turek as our very own Spey Pro here at flyandfloatfishing.com. Will is going to bring a ton of information to the board to share with all of our viewers. We're really excited in the outlook and planned videos we have scheduled in the near future. If there are certain areas of Spey Methods you are particularly interested in, please send us an email and we'll be glad to consider your suggestions for future articles & podcasts while we get this off the ground.

Biography of Will Turek

        Will Turek, born and raised in NE Ohio, has been professionally employed in the Fly Fishing industry since 1995. He spent the last 9 years working for Fish First! fly shop based in the Bay Area in Northern California. While at Fish First! he gained considerable experience in fly fishing retail sales, designing and instructing fly fishing classes and on-stream clinics, and guiding walk/wade and drift boat trips on such notable CA rivers as the Yuba, Feather, Lower and Upper Sacramento, and Pit. In 1999 he moved from the Bay Area to Chico, CA to open and manage a second Fish First! Store and develop Fish First!'s guide operation for Northern California. Will has chased trout, steelhead, salmon, large and smallmouth bass, and striped bass throughout CA, OR, ID, UT, CO, MT, OH, and MI.

    Currently, Will is a flyfishing manufacturer sales rep working with Jerry Darkes of Angling Consulting Services based out of NE Ohio. He designs and instructs Scott Fly Rod on-stream and casting clinics for the Great Lakes region. He is particularly passionate about fishing for steelhead and teaching the benefits of fishing and casting using Spey techniques with single and two-handed rods. Will also appears in Jerry Darkes' "The Great Lakes Steelhead Chronicals" DVD which can be found at the Patagonia website. Jerry Darkes and Will Turek also recently appeared in "Steelhead on Lake Erie Tributaries" episode of Joe Thomas' Reel in the Outdoors show aired on ESPN2.

Will Turek is an expert caster with 8 years experience teaching all levels of anglers the fundamentals of flycasting. He is an experienced single and two-hand spey fishing and casting instructor. Will offers group & private lessons as well as instructs fly casting and spey casting clinics throughout Steelhead Alley. Will can be reached via email by clicking here.