I need tips for leader setup and rigs for lake fishing

[Paul Arden]

SA. It was a groundbreaking line at the time. 6” per sec was the fastest sinker (without going to lead core). We are talking over 30 years ago when the line weighting system actually meant something.

Cheers, Paul

[Lasse Karlsson]

Cool!
The line standard still means alot, its just that all the rod manufactures are messing it up, and the line manufactures are trying to keep up with hype...

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

Damn you found out? Yes all the rod manufacturers had a meeting a couple of years ago and decided to make rods stiffer.

[Lasse Karlsson]

Why have you then made them softer, even that you can't stick to

[Lasse Karlsson]

designed to significantly reduce the variables at the point of release focusing the energy of the cast to the intended target. No matter what happens behind you, the energy of the forward cast is crisply released through a tight window created by the most significant reduction in horizontal and vertical tip frequency ever conceived. It is a rifle in a world of muskets and it autocorrects the variables of the cast to the target with incomparable precision.

Love it

People have been complaining about wrongly rated rods according to AFFTA for as long as I have been involved in flyfishing... And AFFTA hasn't got a rod rating, but hey thats hard to understand isnt it, when rod manufactures keep stating their rods are rated according to AFFTA

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

For fishing I stick to the line weights on the HT. casting sport is quite different of course. For accuracy 5 I use the HT6 (which is a far stiffer combination than the Americans cast). For 5 distance I use the HT10 which is at the upper end of the stiffnesses. However for fishing I use AFFTA complient lines on all our rods and have designed them around such lines.

I think most agree with the combination. The 8 may Is at upper end of the stiffnes but for me they all feel about the same.

On the other hand all this heavier brick on string fly line trend creates opportunities. I can see eventually we will hold significant fly line stocks!

Cheers, Paul

[piffilus]

I have found SA Frequency sink 6, 6 weight. It is 10,4 grams in the first 30 ft and at about 60€ so won't be too hard on my bank. But that's for next month....

[Lasse Karlsson]

So you change line and not rod depending on task at hand, smart man, or as your saying goes, if you need to put a different lineweight on your rod than the designer intended, you bought the wrong rod.. I've seen you quoted for that

I use a stiffer rod than you in accuracy, a slightly softer in trout distance, alot softer in seatrout. Just goes to show we like different kinds of stiffnes, not that one is better than the other. However I do expect to get beaten by the brand that claims to take backcast energy and make it into forward accuracy at the worlds
Choose the line after the fly and fishingsituation and then pick the pretty rod you like to help throw the fly via the line.

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

Hi Lasse,

Of course you pick fly first, line next and rod last. Consequently if you have bought the rod to cast a certain line to cast a certain fly and you end up needing a heavier line because the rod doesn’t suit you, then you have indeed bought the wrong rod!

Cheers, Paul

[Lasse Karlsson]

Hi Lasse,

Of course you pick fly first, line next and rod last. Consequently if you have bought the rod to cast a certain line to cast a certain fly and you end up needing a heavier line because the rod doesn’t suit you, then you have indeed bought the wrong rod!

Cheers, Paul

What if you just bought the rod because it was pretty, and you intend to cast all different kinds of lines on it?

The other part, get a lesson and practice dumbass

Cheers
Lasse