Matching reel and line/rod weights. What can one get away with?

Bill Kiene wrote:
Hi Steve,

I am about half crazy with this cold and sinus crap. I have been off for
almost a week and I think I am headed to the doctor for some drugs.

That is a serious bummer, Bill. Take care of yourself. Maybe you have
the flu, which I hear is shaping up to be especially bad this winter.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Bill,

Thanks for the simple answer. I was hoping there was one.

I hope you feel better.

Dan


"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
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Hi Dan,

If you buy a 9' #5 line 4 piece fly rod it will be OK with your reel. The
JLH is a very light series.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Dan" lose wrote in message
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I am still baffled by the whole line/rod/reel weight thing. I have a 7
weight Hardy JLH Golden reel winging its way towards me from England to
use
on my old Fenwick 7 weight glass fibre rod. I have also decided to look
for
a cheap multi-piece travel rod to allow me to fish when hiking, and it
would
be nice if I could use the same reel. So, what is the lightest rod I
could
get away with using the Hardy reel on? I know one has to match line
weight
and rod weight, but does one absolutely have to match the reel to the
rod
and line? Since everyone seems to say that 4, 5 and 6 weight rods are
right
for trout, I was thinking that maybe I could get a 5 weight rod but only
if
I can use the 7 weight reel on it.

Dan (who is beginning to think about making a trip to Sacramento just to
talk to Bill Kiene in person.)

"rw" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Lat705 wrote:
You mean that those who told me that 90 percent of the sport is the
acquisition
of things are wrong? And I've enjoyed it so much more since my closet
has been
filling up.

They're not necessarily wrong. It depends on your priorities. It's much
easier to collect gear than actually to go out and catch some trout;
and, if you have the right temperment and personality, it might even be
more rewarding.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I was told by one of the snobbiest fly shops in town once that you should "
buy the best line money can buy, buy the best rod you can afford, and , buy
whatever reel you can with the money you have left". I promptly ignored
that advice and went straight to gear whoredom.

jh

rw wrote:

Bill Kiene wrote:

Hi Steve,

I am about half crazy with this cold and sinus crap. I have been off for
almost a week and I think I am headed to the doctor for some drugs.


That is a serious bummer, Bill. Take care of yourself. Maybe you have
the flu, which I hear is shaping up to be especially bad this winter.


It's hit hard here in CO. A young man that works for me goes to a high
school with 1500 students. 1200 were absent one day last week.

Willi

"Willi" wrote

It's hit hard here in CO. A young man that works for me goes to a high
school with 1500 students. 1200 were absent one day last week.

good lord. that's amazing. know anything about the details of the
disease?

they ought to collect dna samples from the 300 "survivors" and run a
study. maybe wolfgang could clone them. or something like that.

yfitons
wayno

"Willi" wrote in message
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rw wrote:

Bill Kiene wrote:

Hi Steve,

I am about half crazy with this cold and sinus crap. I have been off
for
almost a week and I think I am headed to the doctor for some drugs.


That is a serious bummer, Bill. Take care of yourself. Maybe you have
the flu, which I hear is shaping up to be especially bad this winter.


It's hit hard here in CO. A young man that works for me goes to a high
school with 1500 students. 1200 were absent one day last week.

That would be Saturday, right?

--riverman

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:21:38 GMT, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:

maybe wolfgang could clone them.

Yeah, and maybe the guy at Radio Shack could build them a spaceship.
g
--
Charlie...

"riverman" wrote in message
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"Willi" wrote in message
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It's hit hard here in CO. A young man that works for me goes to a high
school with 1500 students. 1200 were absent one day last week.

That would be Saturday, right?

--riverman



I was thinking Thursday

jh

"Charlie Choc" wrote in message
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:21:38 GMT, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:

maybe wolfgang could clone them.

Yeah, and maybe the guy at Radio Shack could build them a spaceship.
g
--
Charlie...

why, sure, uncle charlie! then the both of them could be launched into
the stars, to give birth to a new, better world; a world without disease,
dissension, cynicism, caustic remarks to clueless newbies...um, well, maybe
not.

yfitons
wayno ("sailing mother nature's silver seed, to a new home in the sun...")
*after the goldrush*, by neil young.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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If the idiocy of notions about
balance is not apparent at the end of half an hour, take up oil
painting......it is much more amenable sagacious pronouncements based on
specious "reasoning".

Just have to vent your Nervous Nelly ****wit piehole I guess.

Dave