On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:56:41 -0400, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:


"JR" wrote in message ...

"...And now that you are no longer a poor rank beginner, or even one of
the common mass of *ordinary* fly fishers, you're ready to *move up* to
one of our fast fast fast action rods, rods geared to the most expert of
experts!!

Guess I'll never be an expert, I like them LL's and Winston IM6's.

Don't care for the 444 peach tho, don't seem to last as long.

PS. as soon as I can get to post office, the book is on the way.

I still like the 444 peach in a double taper for my 5 weights on down to the
twos. They do develop the tell-tale line cracks in the taper at modest age,
but by flipping them around they can go three or four seasons.

Otherwise, I use the green 444SL for my 5 weights through the 10 (yes, extra
spools for the fives) in whatever WF configuration the LFS happens to have in
the line weight I need, typically a rocket taper. They last longer than the
classic 444, shoot further, carry a heavier payload (I think the SLs are
heavier, line size for line size, than the classic).

I tried the olive green 555 with the mono core in a weight forward for a
couple of seasons. It's a shooters dream, but I grew tired of having to
stretch all the kinks out every time I used it. Finally broke it last week,
about forty feet into the running line.

And I broke the business end off an Orvis monocore Wonderline on a permit this
spring that wandered into my bonefishing. So it's back to trusty dacron cores
for me. I'll give up the shootability for ease of use and durability...

/daytripper