On 31 Oct 2004 19:15:55 GMT, OWAY2it (-- Rob) wrote:

Oh ya . . . no fish.

Shoulda stayed in bed . . .

Peter

This sounds like my entire fall for stripers.

Wind, wind, or no fish no fish. We had 2 weeks of North winds that ruined a key
part of the fall run.

But hopefully this week will turn fish on again, and be a little more fly
friendly.

A 14' 2 hand rod might be nice as well.

-- Rob


In June we had NE winds blowing that took out a couple of days as
well. There's already a striper two-hander on the market -- Greg and
I both have one -- a CND Atlantis. It's an 11' 11 wt. that'll handle
11/12 wt. lines. It's interesting to cast as it'll put out enough
line that head length becomes critical to ensuring that the cast rolls
out properly. Otherwise, around 100' or so, the cast can "crash".

The Daiwa 10 wt. I was using was original designed as an overhead rod
but it's superb on the spey as well. Daiwa makes a 12'6" 8 wt. that
would be great in the surf. That's a spey 8 wt. rating so figure on
regular 10 wt. lines to load it. I've overhead cast 120' in the yard
using Greg's 8 wt.

Peter

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