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Where I come from there's only one way to fly.

Lies, damned lies, and so-called fishing flies

Some people fish for salmon using spinners. Some people fish using flies. Some salmon waters have banned spinners (that are much easier to cast and generally easier to fish with), declaring them fly only.

Now some wise guys at Grays of Kilsyth have produced the spinhead, a spinner attachment for your fly. If this is used on a fly-only water it is downright cheating. In water that permits spinning there may be an argument for casting something like this with your fly rod but I can't, for the life of me, think what it is. In fact there is no real difference between using this device and attaching a Mepps spinner to your fly leader. The fly-only rivers should move swiftly to ban its use on their waters.

If all you want to know is: "Will it catch fish?" Of course it will. I discussed these moves to create "spinning flies" in one of my fishing columns here. Here is an article trying to justify its use.