Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: wabearhunter on August 21, 2010, 05:52:43 PM
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what would be a good fly rod for small streams in the thick woods. the kinda creek that you have to bushwack 9 miles to get to haha. just tryed fly fishing on Wednesday and caught 6 trout :drool: i'm sure somebody knows what would be a good rod for this type of fishing
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I use a 2 weight rod. Its probably about 6'5 or so. Its smaller for the brush and makes the little ones seem like whales.
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great, thanks. i was using a 6 weight 8' rod and thought that was too big for small creeks. i'll look around for a used one probably. caught a 9.5" Brookie out of this creek here on a worm, wanted to try it with a fly.
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Essentially the strength of the rod, as you increase in number, the bigger the rod is and the bigger fish it could catch in short. 5 weight is the "average" size. higher than that is stealhead into salmon. My trout rod is a 3 and a 4. My salmon rod is a 9.
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thanks, i understand it now.
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I love my 7 foot 3 weight. don't go bigger than a three weight if you can help it. You loose to much of the fun of small stream trout.
