Mu Young Lee wrote in message cc.itd.umich.edu...
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Salmo Bytes wrote:

You can fish a spinner blade with a flyrod.
The trick is making one light enough to cast with a flyrod.

That's true Sandy but my guess is that for salmon, Steve is interested in
imitating size 5 and larger French-blade spinners which generate a great
deal more thumping in the water than the small Colorado or bow-tie style
blades that are available for flies.
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Fair enough: a size 5 French blade probably is a little too much for
almost
any flrod. But you can get a pretty good throb from a #3 or #4
thin-diameter Indiana or Colorado blade. I throw them a lot
during the runoff season. The early season Yellowstone has been so
muddy for
so long (well forever probably, but more so ever since the 1988
fire season) many of the local guides have discovered you
can catch fish during the off-color water season. All you need is
about 12" of
fuzzy visability and huge rubber-leggy flies...throwing "junk," it's
often called.

Add a #4 Colorado spinner blade to the usual junk and it works
even better. A long leader that tapers from 35lb at the butt to
1x flourocarbon at the clevis makes tossing heavy stuff practical.
With an 8wt flyrod I can deliver a lightweight lure at 60'

For anyone tempted to ask "why not just get a spinning rod?" the
answer
is "why not indeed?" Lure fishing with a good spinning rod is a blast.
Still, I do prefer the feel of a flyrod in my hand most of the time,
and like the way I can pick up 45' of line, backcast once and lay
it back down again--something you cannot do with a spinning rod.


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