On Sep 4, 8:47 pm, "Wayne Knight" wrote:
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For shame, for shame! Neither of you suggested an old fishable 'boo or
'glass. Heck, any number of decent old rods could be had for under
$200USD.

Look, I have live with the fact that I essentially told the guy to look at a
KPOS or Lefty's break away retirement fund "stick" and compound it with that
post will be on some usenet server long after I'm gone. The guy is new at
this and without a mentor or a stash of alternative sticks and should stay
with what he's comfortable with.

Thanks for all the replies. I will try overlining and maybe saving up
a few more pennies or trying out some of the suggestions. I bought the
premier on a whim and I can fish with it, have caught some nice fish
with it. But it's not comfortable feels like I'm running down a hill
and alot of concentration ocassionally goes into the timing and my
accuracy suffers a bit. One thing that has suprised me is that I
bought a double taper 5 floating line the other day and I absolutely
cannot cast it well. Wide loops very slow line speeds. I heard that a
double taper will expose some casting flaws and...well I've got some.
THere feels to be no load regarless of arialized line the front taper
is long on it, it's one of those factory overruns and I bought it just
to try it out. Maybe it's rated wrong. I can cast a wf 5wt 40-45feet
tight loops on a good day(but rarely need to)..with this stuff you can
drive your car through my loops.
When I casted with a slower rod I felt like I had more control over
what was happening and it wasn't a reaction thing, like "uh oh gotta
move it foward now!!" this was more like "look at that beautiful line
unrolling behind me... let me light a cigarette then we'll move it
foward"..and it just felt more comfortable...could me my inexperience
or it could be my style....
Thanks for the tips,
Brian