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What line for an 11' 3wt?
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Bubble float. It’s the future of fly fishing.
Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Just for completeness' sake...I have gone for the Barrio GT90. 45' head.
https://www.flylineshop.com/shop.html#! ... y=10329715
Finger's crossed. Will report back.
B
https://www.flylineshop.com/shop.html#! ... y=10329715
Finger's crossed. Will report back.
B
Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Gentlemen, gentlemen. Please! Point of order!
Please be careful of your language. This is a public forum.
It is NOT a bubble float...it's a 'strike indicator'!
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Latest Skagit line (triangle taper)
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
My friend Tellis called micro skagit "bombarda for the flyfisher" when I stuck one in his hands back when they came out
Great tools for certain jobs, which people forget flylines are....
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
So is harling and French Nymphing. I have no problem with any of it. Sometimes we do what we have to do.
But if you want to go dry fly fishing with a bubble float you are making life difficult!! When I was about 22, I was picking apples in a NZ orchard. In the irrigation ponds were some big and some small trout. After work I would fly fish and a Czech friend of mine would fly fish using a bubble float and nymphs.
We also used to fish a dam near there that was quite a bike ride. The river that flowed into this dam is the river where Ronan has caught the same fish three times in a 7 year period, that is now over 10lbs.
The orchard is now a vineyard, I have no idea what happened to my Czech friend, and bubble floats are now fly lines
Cheers, Paul
But if you want to go dry fly fishing with a bubble float you are making life difficult!! When I was about 22, I was picking apples in a NZ orchard. In the irrigation ponds were some big and some small trout. After work I would fly fish and a Czech friend of mine would fly fish using a bubble float and nymphs.
We also used to fish a dam near there that was quite a bike ride. The river that flowed into this dam is the river where Ronan has caught the same fish three times in a 7 year period, that is now over 10lbs.
The orchard is now a vineyard, I have no idea what happened to my Czech friend, and bubble floats are now fly lines
Cheers, Paul
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Depends on what kind of dryfly fishing you are afterPaul Arden wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:52 pm
But if you want to go dry fly fishing with a bubble float you are making life difficult!!
Cheers, Paul
A quote about parachutes and minds is in my thoughts
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Generally I like my dry flies to land quietly and without a bubble float landing beside them.
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Re: What line for an 11' 3wt?
Tenkara is your game, check
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Flycasting, so simple that instructors need to make it complicated since 1685
Got a Q++ at casting school, wearing shorts
Flycasting, so simple that instructors need to make it complicated since 1685
Got a Q++ at casting school, wearing shorts