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mismatching flyline weight with reel

eric paul zamora wrote:

... could i use the smallish 5/6
redington on a 4 or 3 weight rod with 4 or 3 weight line?...

First, I should say I have no experience with Redington reels, so I
don't know if this applies to that particular reel or not.

The only problem might be the minimum drag. I've had trouble with
oversize reels when I'm using 6x or 5x leader and the fish turns out to
be a big rainbow. One reel we had just wouldn't let the line out fast
enough for those fish. We made a field fix by reversing the reel
without reversing the line. This gave no drag at all for the running
fish, but a small drag for winding in the line. My son Andy had lost 4
nice fish before we mande the change, and he landed 3 after that. We
replaced that reel with a Ross Cimeron and are entirely satisfied.

Chas
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mismatching flyline weight with reel

George wrote:I had the smallest CT on my one weight and I agree. The next size
up is still
only 3.5 oz. and would have worked just as well. They are nice reels.

I had an e-mail today from a guy that says that that series has been
discontinued. I was afraid of that when I heard that Sage is the latest owner
of the company.Soundl like I better buy a couple more if and when I find them.
I prefer the middle size one for my beloved little 3 weight rods.

Big Dale

mismatching flyline weight with reel

well, to answer chas' question from my point of view, one purpose for buying
up older, discontinued reels is the price break, especially if they're new
or like new condition; dealers and others are probably clearing them out at
good prices. in this reel's case, i picked it up for about half of
redington's GD reel (GD for $129 or so). redington carries two lower
models. one, the Red.fly (maybe closer to the CT in comparison) is die cast
(the CT is machined). the redfly (about the same price as my ebay'd CT)
offers the choice of extra spools which is nice but it doesn't have the
machined look and feel which i like.

i see now that redington also offers a new "crosswater" reel which looks
good for basic purposes and is even cheaper than my discontinued CT but it's
graphite and i still like the machined aspect of the ct.

uh oh, i'm rambling... sorry ;-) and forgive me if i sound like an ad for
redington. i don't mean to push them onto others in any way. at the time i
vbought the CT, it seemed fine for my light trout use, and still does.

you mentioned the american way. what happens if nobody buys up the
discontinued models? landfill? just arguing for argument's sake.

eric zamora
(who also buys used but still very good vehicles)
fresno, ca.

From: Chas Wade
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Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 06:52:34 GMT
Subject: mismatching flyline weight with reel

(Brimbum) wrote:
I had an e-mail today from a guy that says that that series has been
discontinued. I was afraid of that when I heard that Sage is the
latest owner
of the company.Soundl like I better buy a couple more if and when I
find them.
I prefer the middle size one for my beloved little 3 weight rods.

Not to pick on you, but a thought struck me. Why should we buy up the
old ones instead of looking around for the new stuff that put the old
ones off the market? Maybe this is an excuse to retire an old one to
your museum and find something new and probably better.

It's the American way. ;-)

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Chas wrote:Why should we buy up the
old ones instead of looking around for the new stuff that put the old
ones off the market?

I don't think it was replaced with a new and better product. Sage just dosen't
care to serve the lower end of the market very well. As far as I am concerned
their only competition was the Ross click, pawl drag reel that has the
reputation of going thru springs on a regular basis. Please educate me if
anyone else is making a high quality inexpensive click paul drag reel that is
in the same class as the Redington CT. I happen to prefer that reel to my
little Hardy and it is a hell of a lot more inexpensive.

Big Dale

Big Dale

mismatching flyline weight with reel

Brimbum wrote:

... Redington CT. I happen to prefer that reel to my
little Hardy and it is a hell of a lot more inexpensive.

Really ? Why ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

mismatching flyline weight with reel

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:16:09 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Brimbum wrote:

... Redington CT. I happen to prefer that reel to my
little Hardy and it is a hell of a lot more inexpensive.

Really ? Why ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

They really are nice reels. And IIRC they are made by our allies in Korea.

g.c.

mismatching flyline weight with reel

George Cleveland wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Brimbum wrote:

... Redington CT. I happen to prefer that reel to my
little Hardy and it is a hell of a lot more inexpensive.

Really ? Why ?

They really are nice reels. And IIRC they are made by our allies in Korea.

I'm sure they're nice, but why, other than price, would Big Dale
or anyone else prefer it to a Hardy ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

mismatching flyline weight with reel

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

I'm sure they're nice, but why, other than price, would Big Dale
or anyone else prefer it to a Hardy ?

Maybe because he's not a snobbish, elitist, English-landed-gentry wannabe?

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