Big Dale wrote:

Here in Texas we use all of these on a regular basis. The nine weight
will wear you out in a full day of blind casting, while you can do it
with an eight weight. The seven weight will probsably be too light for
bulky or heavy bass bugs or streamers. I would get the eight weight.

At the risk of writing a "me too" post, BD knows what he's talking
about. My first bass rigs were 6 and 8-wt. The 6 can throw smaller
bugs OK, but if dealing with wind and big bulky flies, the 8-wt. is the
ticket. It's not as much fun to fight a fish on a rod that big (unless
you are running into some pretty large fish), but it's no fun at all to
throw big bugs with a 6-wt.

Of course, I use a 5-wt. these days for fishing my favorite river,
so what do I know? :-)


Chuck Vance