Spey rod, center pin reel, etc.

Was fishing the Farmington River in CT this afternoon, and a guy showed up with
a rig just like Mike Connor described a while ago. He had a 12' two handed spey
rod with a center pin, (free spool), reel spooled with mono, and a float
similar to the ones Mike showed. He was using bait, and slinging sixty foot
casts with little effort. It was obvious he could have cast much further if he
wanted to, but the Farmington is not that big a stream. He was able to control
the drift while keeping contact with the float, and he caught several fish. All
in all, pretty interesting to watch. Not real sporting, considering the fish he
was catching were all under a foot long, but I can see where this would be an
effective and sporting method of fishing big water for large fish. No reason a
fly could not have been subsituted for the bait and been successful.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

On 02 May 2004 02:52:51 GMT, ojunk (George Adams)
wrote:

Was fishing the Farmington River in CT this afternoon, and a guy showed up with
a rig just like Mike Connor described a while ago. He had a 12' two handed spey
rod with a center pin, (free spool), reel spooled with mono, and a float
similar to the ones Mike showed. He was using bait, and slinging sixty foot
casts with little effort. It was obvious he could have cast much further if he
wanted to, but the Farmington is not that big a stream. He was able to control
the drift while keeping contact with the float, and he caught several fish. All
in all, pretty interesting to watch. Not real sporting, considering the fish he
was catching were all under a foot long, but I can see where this would be an
effective and sporting method of fishing big water for large fish. No reason a
fly could not have been subsituted for the bait and been successful.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller


May not have ben a spey rod, but a float rod -- they're both about the
same length. They're quite common in the GWN. Some even use flies on
them. This rig is the most common way to fish for steelhead here,
using small bags of roe. It's a very effective method.

Peter

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