Smallmouth rod

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

What's your choice for a fly rod for smallmouth ?

Here in the streams of central Illinois my 5wt is an appropriate
tool for stream smallies. Like Goldilocks says, not too much rod
and not too little rod. But the smallies here in our streams aren't
that big. After the first time I battled a Quetico smallmouth with
a 5wt I knew that on subsequent trips I'd be bringing my 7wt.

Now I go smallie fishing in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's UP.
I find the best all round rod smallie rod, lakes and streams, is
a faster action 6wt. The 7wt is fine in the Sylvania Wilderness
Lakes where the fish are bigger but a 6wt is better I think if
you cast for hours at a time and the 6wt does just fine pulling
the smallies out of the brush and snags on the rivers.

My choice for smallmouth is a faster action 6wt.

My go-to smallie rod is a 9' 7 weight Sage RPLX. It's the perfect rod for
casting 1/0 and 2/0 poppers to - and then fighting - the big bastids we catch
on the Androscoggin - where the smallies get up in the mid-20 inch range and
fight like the dickens.

I don't know exactly what current Sage line would match up to the RPLX...

/daytripper

On Mar 23, 1:56 am, daytripper wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry



wrote:
What's your choice for a fly rod for smallmouth ?

Here in the streams of central Illinois my 5wt is an appropriate
tool for stream smallies. Like Goldilocks says, not too much rod
and not too little rod. But the smallies here in our streams aren't
that big. After the first time I battled a Quetico smallmouth with
a 5wt I knew that on subsequent trips I'd be bringing my 7wt.

Now I go smallie fishing in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's UP.
I find the best all round rod smallie rod, lakes and streams, is
a faster action 6wt. The 7wt is fine in the Sylvania Wilderness
Lakes where the fish are bigger but a 6wt is better I think if
you cast for hours at a time and the 6wt does just fine pulling
the smallies out of the brush and snags on the rivers.

My choice for smallmouth is a faster action 6wt.

My go-to smallie rod is a 9' 7 weight Sage RPLX. It's the perfect rod for
casting 1/0 and 2/0 poppers to - and then fighting - the big bastids we catch
on the Androscoggin - where the smallies get up in the mid-20 inch range and
fight like the dickens.

I don't know exactly what current Sage line would match up to the RPLX...

/daytripper

Sage and others are now pushing this as "THE" bass rod;

http://www.flyfishingoutfitters.com/...D-SAG-BASS-33L

Maybe it is. Odd that they advise using the equivalent of an #11
weight line on it don´t you think?

I have been suggesting that for various things for years, and most of
the people here merely laughed it off.

By the way, I don´t like queers.

MC

http://www.sageflyfish.com/default.asp?p=139

http://flyfishing.hook.tv/Clip.aspx?...F154264540A260


loads more, just typ "Sage bass rod" into a search box.

MC

A nine for a six..............the standard.........7 wt's are useless
use a 8 wt instead...........5 wt's are trout stuff unless you catch
wussy smallmouths! the 2 to 3 inch ones.......F/T


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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:26:50 -0400, Fishin Technician
wrote:

A nine for a six..............the standard.........7 wt's are useless
use a 8 wt instead...........5 wt's are trout stuff unless you catch
wussy smallmouths! the 2 to 3 inch ones.......F/T

Put the crack pipe down, and slowly back away from the keyboard...

/daytripper

On Mar 23, 3:26 am, Fishin Technician Fishin.Technician.
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A nine for a six..............the standard.........7 wt's are useless
use a 8 wt instead...........5 wt's are trout stuff unless you catch
wussy smallmouths! the 2 to 3 inch ones.......F/T

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Is that some sort of "teenage newspeak"? Reminds me of a bloke in
one of my fly-dressing classes, referred to by all and sundry as
"dances with head cement". Mind you, even though he is usually quite
incoherent, he dresses nice flies. Don´t know whether he actually
fishes them...................

TL
MC

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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What's your choice for a fly rod for smallmouth ?

Here in the streams of central Illinois my 5wt is an appropriate
tool for stream smallies. Like Goldilocks says, not too much rod
and not too little rod. But the smallies here in our streams aren't
that big. After the first time I battled a Quetico smallmouth with
a 5wt I knew that on subsequent trips I'd be bringing my 7wt.

Now I go smallie fishing in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's UP.
I find the best all round rod smallie rod, lakes and streams, is
a faster action 6wt. The 7wt is fine in the Sylvania Wilderness
Lakes where the fish are bigger but a 6wt is better I think if
you cast for hours at a time and the 6wt does just fine pulling
the smallies out of the brush and snags on the rivers.

My choice for smallmouth is a faster action 6wt.

--
Ken Fortenberry

.....my home waters are smallmouth waters. Granted, around here a three
pounder is a big un. But, the occasional channel cat or carp can put a big
bend in your rod and I use a five weight 95% of the time. Heck...that rod
is made to flex and I have no problem with fighting a fish right down in the
butt of a rod as opposed to playing one on the tip section.

John

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

What's your choice for a fly rod for smallmouth ?

Here in the streams of central Illinois my 5wt is an appropriate
tool for stream smallies. Like Goldilocks says, not too much rod
and not too little rod. But the smallies here in our streams aren't
that big. After the first time I battled a Quetico smallmouth with
a 5wt I knew that on subsequent trips I'd be bringing my 7wt.

Now I go smallie fishing in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's UP.
I find the best all round rod smallie rod, lakes and streams, is
a faster action 6wt. The 7wt is fine in the Sylvania Wilderness
Lakes where the fish are bigger but a 6wt is better I think if
you cast for hours at a time and the 6wt does just fine pulling
the smallies out of the brush and snags on the rivers.

My choice for smallmouth is a faster action 6wt.

Whatever's handy and size-appropriate, from 5 to about 7/8. IME down
south, _VERY_ few of the total fishers use flyrods (as true flyrods),
it's often "bass fishing" rather than "small-" or "large-mouth" fishing
(for the "casual" fisher), and it's rarely "finesse" fishing, and as
such, it's all personal opinion within a VERY wide range of
possibilities.

TC,
R