Skookum OutfittersCasting Lessons for 2 - Beginner Fly Fishing or Spey Casting Lessons. Choose either beginning Fly Fishing Class or Spey Casting Lessons with this certificate. Beginning Fly Fishing includes learning all the most important aspects of fly fishing; Rod, Reel, Line and how to put it together. Knots, casting techniques, reading water, understanding fish behaviors and ethics/etiquette and fish handling. Spey Casting Lessons: if you're a curious beginner or a more experienced Spey Caster looking to tune-up the casts you already know and expand to learn more casting techniques, this if for you. With several "classrooms" in the Columbia River Gorge and Lower Deschutes River canyon areas, your instructor will meet you in the most convenient streamside location to hold class. The difference between a class and a guided trip is the absence of the raft or drift boat. With learning as the goal, we avoid using the time and expense of floating the river and hunting fish to focus on a casting curriculum tailored to the needs of the student.