What is ultimate fly line weight for your fly rod? Or what is the ultimate fly rod for your line? The goal is distance.

[VGB]

Hi Paul

I’m using a 9ft blank from Bulgaria that has a #2 written on it. It feels like the old Mk1 Streamflex but most people are using much stiffer blank for this stuff.

Regards

Vince

[Lasse Karlsson]

Hi Vince,

Maybe it has to do with moving from longer distance to short then. What rod are you using? Funny I remember years ago Henry Lowe taking me aside and showing me that one of the great things about split cane rods was how easy it was to cast just the leader.

Cheers, Paul

I had an interesting conversation with a professionel splitcane rodbuilder, he claimed that the beauty of splitcane was you could cast it slower than graphite...
There where beers involved and a shootout in the street afterwards, turns out you couldn't...

Cheers
Lasse

[Walter]

I had an interesting conversation with a professionel splitcane rodbuilder, he claimed that the beauty of splitcane was you could cast it slower than graphite...
There where beers involved and a shootout in the street afterwards, turns out you couldn't...

Cheers
Lasse

Depends what he meant by slower. By the time you take the split cane out of its case, admire the workmanship, caress the ferrules and pass it around on a silk pillow for others to comment on and admire you’ll find the graphite guy has made the cast, caught the fish, packed up, driven off and is enjoying his first pint at the pub. Hopefully, they weren’t carpooling. Definitely slower that way.

If it has something to do with making the fly float gracefully and slowly to the target in such a way that the graphite can’t then all I can say is that energy is energy and the fly and line don’t care where the energy comes from.

[Paul Arden]

Henry was right about a cane rod allowing you to cast a leader only, because the rod bends against its own inertia. Which in turn allows us to form a nice loop using butt rotation. It’s just that carbon rods do this too.

I have used FN rods too Vince. And #4 os like #8. But I don’t like them for dry fly, only nymph. The difference being that the fly is flicked and not delivered by the loop.

I can certain imagine the difference if casting a dry fly. but that same stroke with 3 flies I think is going to cause tangles and quite impressive ones. However I have never tried. Maybe a side bet for a pint?

Cheers, Paul

[VGB]

I have used FN rods too Vince. And #4 os like #8. But I don’t like them for dry fly, only nymph. The difference being that the fly is flicked and not delivered by the loop.

I can certain imagine the difference if casting a dry fly. but that same stroke with 3 flies I think is going to cause tangles and quite impressive ones. However I have never tried. Maybe a side bet for a pint?

I did it initially because I was too lazy to switch to a fly line, it worked well enough to catch fish. Mind you, we are not allowed to use more than 1 fly because loads of flies makes it too easy. Can my point fly be a beaded nymph?

Regards

Vince

[Paul Arden]

No

[VGB]

I guess 18lb maxima for the droppers is out of the question as well?

[Paul Arden]

The middle one!

[VGB]

I tie my single dry fly leaders like that so that they collapse. That’s a leader designed for a weighted point fly and a wide stroke.

Regards

Vince

[Paul Arden]

Interesting