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I spent a lovely day lake fishing for big black bass, panfish, and pickerel.
I also found myself unconsciously doing snake rolls with my 9wt singlehander- a rather stiff Scott STS. With a Rio Longcast 9wt, the casts were reaching the 70ft+ mark with minimal physical strain.
Now, i'm not the greatest snakeroller known to man and the conditions weren't always optimum, but I was very happy with the cast-effort ratio I was getting. Especially since urban fishing means having to be extremely careful of an aerial backcast, this is a good close quarters technique
The ability to throw that HAUL in before the final power stroke further sweetens the line-speed deal.
Anyone else using this or other newer casts in the singlehand realm? I'm definitely going to be rolling the snake in the surf when i get a chance...
BTW- Saw the biggest Pike I've ever seen- just monstrous- in Prospect Park Lake in downtown brooklyn. A pike this big in Brooklyn is surely employed by La Cosa Nostra. Can't even estimate it's size...40 inches maybe? Maybe that's not big really, but to see it just sitting there in the water, staring hungrily at the homeless guy eyeing my shiny reel...no price on that.
A BEAUTIFUL woodduck (here ducky-ducky...let me pluck your lemon barred sides...where's my speargun!) too. A blue heron also? Somethign like it? I wonder how my 12 gauge Beretta would be received in the Park? On the sub way? I do promise to use bismuth shot. Don't wanna kill the waterfowl or anything
brooklyn angler
I spent a lovely day lake fishing for big black bass, panfish, and pickerel.
I also found myself unconsciously doing snake rolls with my 9wt singlehander- a rather stiff Scott STS. With a Rio Longcast 9wt, the casts were reaching the 70ft+ mark with minimal physical strain.
Now, i'm not the greatest snakeroller known to man and the conditions weren't always optimum, but I was very happy with the cast-effort ratio I was getting. Especially since urban fishing means having to be extremely careful of an aerial backcast, this is a good close quarters technique
The ability to throw that HAUL in before the final power stroke further sweetens the line-speed deal.
Anyone else using this or other newer casts in the singlehand realm? I'm definitely going to be rolling the snake in the surf when i get a chance...
BTW- Saw the biggest Pike I've ever seen- just monstrous- in Prospect Park Lake in downtown brooklyn. A pike this big in Brooklyn is surely employed by La Cosa Nostra. Can't even estimate it's size...40 inches maybe? Maybe that's not big really, but to see it just sitting there in the water, staring hungrily at the homeless guy eyeing my shiny reel...no price on that.
A BEAUTIFUL woodduck (here ducky-ducky...let me pluck your lemon barred sides...where's my speargun!) too. A blue heron also? Somethign like it? I wonder how my 12 gauge Beretta would be received in the Park? On the sub way? I do promise to use bismuth shot. Don't wanna kill the waterfowl or anything
brooklyn angler