"Ken Fortenberry" wrote


My 1wt has more fish landing backbone than you might think
and it's a good fishing tool for some circumstances.

--
Ken Fortenberry


thanks, Ken, that is the type fishing I assumed would be suited ....

I actually 'loved' the sweet casting little 2 wt Sage ( light Line model )
until I simply could not pull an exhausted fish up to me in Silver Creek.
It was a good fish, 18 inch or so, and I was an idiot and wore him out
BEFORE I figured out that the rod couldn't even move him, on his side,
against the current. If I had, I would have broken him off much earlier,
when he was fresh enough to survive. I was afraid to try landing without
the cushion of the rod, break the tippet after he was exhausted and he was a
dead trout. The water he was in was deep and the bottom dangerously
silty ( if you've been there you know what I mean ) so going to him was ...
literally dangerous ... but that is what I finally did ..... shipping a
little water over the waders and praying I'd not get stuck until I got him
in the net and moved to safer ground. He seemed 'ok' after a long
revival, but who knows ? I don't think I ever took the rod out of
it's case again.

I don't know about NC, but I'd think a western high country day without 1 wt
impairing wind would be a rare day, indeed. But if the rod adds pleasure
and you're not facing the problem my story points at ... enjoy G