Rob Allen
Life of the Party
I scored a zero on that list, technically I do own indicators. The little foam pinch on floats.Spey bros are a thing. They are the younger generation of spey addicts.
Not talking about your Mike Kinney, or Dec Hogan, or Ed Ward gen 1 type spey addicts.
Spey bros are the kids of the OG spey addicts. They love the game, but for different reasons.
There are a few things that define the 'spey bro'
That's a starting point for you.
- Have presence on Instagram (minimum 500 followers)
- Every trip to the river results in multiple posts with hashtag #speylife #speybum #speyguy etc. etc.
- Possess minimum (3) Yeti coolers
- Can't snake roll
- Can't single spey
- Probably wears a flat bill hat
- Wardrobe is 70% simms, 30% Howler Bros
- Usually brings minimum of (4) rods on every trip to the river. Despite the fact that one is plenty.
- Owns at least (3) go pros.
- Rio/Airflo is the only line they know
- "Crushes" Vitamin R e.g. Rainier Beer
- Probably has 27 different stickers on his truck indicating he fly fishes.
- Does not 'get' the appeal of clicker reels
- Says the word "bro" more often than necessary (which is basically never)
- Responds to statements with the phrase "for sure"
- Probably has a tan line from sun glasses
- Doesn't understand why anyone would fish for steelhead with anything other than an intruder
- Uses fluorocarbon leader
- Has every single MOW tip made by Rio
- Takes 7,000 photos of each and every single steelhead they catch. Even hatchery fish.
- Posts to instagram photos of caught steelhead while out on the river.
- Constantly looking at phone
- Doesn't own an indicator