"Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote in message
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"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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I have a four piece rod Sage 490-4LL, will that cover my needs or do I
bring
a heavier classed rod?

I know at least one veteran who prefers this exact rod for dry fly fishing
on Penn's. You can also get away with it for smaller nymphs (#14 and
under)
but if the water is high (it has been the past few years) you will find it
hard to cast nymphs with the extra weight you will need to get to the
bottom
escpeially if the wind is up (which isn't unusual for this time of year) .

I have a T & T Paradigm #3 for Dry Flies only ( I like to go a bit light
on
dries) but my primary rods are Sage RPL and SP 590s. I just picked up the
SP last year and pretty much exclusively fished it when nymphing. Most
lead
slingers use a 6 weight if you go with large nymphs regularly. I have
also
seen 7 weight rods for the Green Drake hatch (a huge fly that brings up
huge
fish).

Sounds like you have quite a few offers to show you around, but let me
know
what your plans are and I'll show you a hole or two.

The Finn..

Well,

The ticket arrived a couple of days ago. I'll be spending May 14 to May 24
in USA starting with a first night visit at Dave LaCourse's home.
Dave will be driving me to the clave and hopefully we can do some fishing
together before he needs to get back. Apart from that I'm game for any
suggestions as far as the fishing goes. Looking forward to meeting and
fishing with as many as possible.

/Roger