Gear report

Tim J. wrote:
At the fly fishing show in Marlborough, MA this weekend, one of the vendors
was offering a 10% show special on all rods they brought to the show. One of
these was the Orvis Superfine 7'9" 2WT, which I'd been eyeballing in their
catalogs for more than a year. When I picked it up and put it through a
slight amount of casting motion, it called out to me and I had to buy it. I
didn't want to, but it had to be done.

Yep, I bought a 7'6" Orvis Superfine 1wt from Peter Charles
and it is one sweet casting little jewel on a tiny brookie
stream. I put a DT2 on it since I rarely cast more than
20-30', you might try a DT3 on yours and see what you think.

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Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry typed:
Tim J. wrote:
At the fly fishing show in Marlborough, MA this weekend, one of the
vendors was offering a 10% show special on all rods they brought to
the show. One of these was the Orvis Superfine 7'9" 2WT, which I'd
been eyeballing in their catalogs for more than a year. When I
picked it up and put it through a slight amount of casting motion,
it called out to me and I had to buy it. I didn't want to, but it
had to be done.

Yep, I bought a 7'6" Orvis Superfine 1wt from Peter Charles
and it is one sweet casting little jewel on a tiny brookie
stream. I put a DT2 on it since I rarely cast more than
20-30', you might try a DT3 on yours and see what you think.

I might try that just to see how it feels on this rod, but when I've
over-lined like that in the past I haven't been happy with the casting. Last
year, I was using a DT4 on my 3WT rod for a while and didn't like the
results. Since the rod is a KPOS, I naturally assumed it was the rod. ;-)
Once I put a #3 line on the rod, it felt good and casted as well as could be
expected with me at the other end.
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TL,
Tim
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