09-19-2012, 03:27 PM
[quote Browntrout]You might ask yourself a different question:
Are you in the school of Kelly Galloup or Jeremy Hunt
when fishing streamers? Then you might be able to
more closely determine the rod wt. of choice.
Good Luck---[/quote]
I'm not sure want you mean by this. What size rods do KG and JH use to throw big streamers for trout? I've landed tons of 20-26 inch trout in rivers on good 3 and 4 wt rods and only recall about twice loosing a fish that I thought I'd land with a bigger rod. No trout has taking me more than about 3 minutes to land ever on any rod. If I'm targeting big trout my 6 wt Helios has never met it's match. I even landed some King Salmon in the 15- 20 lb range under 5 minutes with that rod this summer when by catch when targeting big grayling and bows.
Jim mentioned today 7 is a 9 wt. I believe that's true with some of the premium rods but not usually true with lower and mid priced rods.
The drawback of using heavier wt rods is after a couple thousand casts my shoulder has had it and I don't even want to fish the next day.
The reason I suggest I heavier rod for some of the non trout is most of us aren't Tarpon Jims [
]. I've also been totally put in my place by fresh trophy size silvers on a 8 wt. Only took a cast or 2 for them to nail a steamer. Didn't even begin to land 1 in 10 hooked. Lost more streamers that day than the worst month of losing flies ever.
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Are you in the school of Kelly Galloup or Jeremy Hunt
when fishing streamers? Then you might be able to
more closely determine the rod wt. of choice.
Good Luck---[/quote]
I'm not sure want you mean by this. What size rods do KG and JH use to throw big streamers for trout? I've landed tons of 20-26 inch trout in rivers on good 3 and 4 wt rods and only recall about twice loosing a fish that I thought I'd land with a bigger rod. No trout has taking me more than about 3 minutes to land ever on any rod. If I'm targeting big trout my 6 wt Helios has never met it's match. I even landed some King Salmon in the 15- 20 lb range under 5 minutes with that rod this summer when by catch when targeting big grayling and bows.
Jim mentioned today 7 is a 9 wt. I believe that's true with some of the premium rods but not usually true with lower and mid priced rods.
The drawback of using heavier wt rods is after a couple thousand casts my shoulder has had it and I don't even want to fish the next day.
The reason I suggest I heavier rod for some of the non trout is most of us aren't Tarpon Jims [
]. I've also been totally put in my place by fresh trophy size silvers on a 8 wt. Only took a cast or 2 for them to nail a steamer. Didn't even begin to land 1 in 10 hooked. Lost more streamers that day than the worst month of losing flies ever.[signature]