Brian Niska

King Salmon Mini Gallery

August 20, 2012

A couple weeks back we ran a post with a small gallery of photos by Brian Niska on chum salmon fishing at Alaska West. Today we present you with another batch of pictures from Brian, this time on the ‘other species’ available during chum season – king salmon. Nice shots, Brian! More on King Salmon [...]

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Chum Salmon Mini Gallery

August 11, 2012

Brian Niska, as you may now, is the owner of Whistler Fly Fishing, a spey rod designer, and one of our crack team of guest spey instructors at Alaska West and BC West. He also takes some great photos. We’ve got Brian to thank for today’s mini-gallery about swinging flies for chum salmon at Alaska [...]

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Pieroway Metal Detector King Rod Review

July 25, 2012

Today our series of king salmon spey rod reviews marches on! You can read the background on this series here, and you can also check out the first two reviews in the series – the ECHO King and the Sage 10130-4 ONE. Last month Brian Niska wrote up a really detailed article for us about [...]

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Metal Detector Spey Series – Concept and Design

June 30, 2012

Brian Niska owns Whistler Fly Fishing and he’s one of our guest spey instructors at Alaska West and BC West. There’s a reason we bring him back every year – he does an incredible job communicating concepts about spey fishing to anglers of all backgrounds. Brian designed a line of spey rods called ‘Metal Detector’ [...]

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How to Stop a Train

June 27, 2011

Brian Niska is just back from hosting a week of chinook salmon fishing at BC West. While on site at the lodge, he sent over a summary of the rig he uses to (attempt to) subdue the chrome sea monsters otherwise known as Dean River Chinooks. How to Stop a Train While the comparison of [...]

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Chinook Flies for the Dean

June 20, 2011

Brian Niska is on site at BC West this week, chasing chinooks with an intrepid group of anglers. They arrived on Saturday, and Brian immediately sat down and sent us a write up on the flies he’ll be fishing during his trip. Thanks, Brian! Chinook Flies for the Dean River It’s 10:30 pm here on [...]

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Spey Casting and Hand Position

June 10, 2011

Brian Niska’s series of spey casting tips continues today, with some great discussion on hand position. This is one of our favorites! Reduce Fatigue and Increase Speycasting Performance with Proper Hand Position Proper hand position will enable you to utilize the larger joints to develop power for the speycast, thereby reducing fatigue and increasing casting [...]

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Slack is the Enemy

May 12, 2011

We’re happy to return to Brian Niska‘s series of tips on spey casting. For those of you new to our blog, over the past few months Brian has been taking us through some step-by-step tips on the spey cast. Topics to date have included Wade Shallow and Relax, Start with a Lift, Setting up for the [...]

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Airflo Skagit Switch Review

May 3, 2011

Back in September we told you about Airflo’s new Skagit Switch Heads – a potential solution to the “nobody makes a modern spey line for my switch rod” problem. Since the early version of the head that we got our hands on at IFTD, Airflo has gone through a couple more iterations. Last month we [...]

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