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I've been going through a current phase of tying miniature skaters for trout, but wanting to stay with my "trout sized" tackle for fishing them such as my old Sage RPL 9' 4wt and Loomis GLX 9'5wt. My "cheap skate" and "pack rat" characteristics came through with some recent experiments I've been doing with spey casting my old trout single handers.
I've been an Ambushaholic the past few years for my steelhead swinging, but I've been too cheap to buy the Ambush lines in 4 and 5wt to match my trout rods. I decided to try making do with stuff I had and figured to upline each of my trout rods by one line weight with standard weight forward lines I had on hand. The 9' 4wt did ok with a 5wt Cabelas's weight forward and the 9'5wt also did ok with a cheap Cortland WF6F. While these setups worked, I still felt like I was working too hard.
I remembered that a couple weeks ago, I had experimented with uplining my old Sage RPL 9' 7wt by two line sizes by putting on a Sage Equator WF9F saltwater taper that I had from the days when I tried chasing bones on Kauai (without success). When I took this setup on the water, the line just flew! I was making single hand spey casts with ease and the rod didn't feel overloaded at all.
Well I decided to take the "uplining by 2" routine to my 9"5wt today and put on an old SA WF7F bass bug taper on and it was pure magic! Effortless spey casts with easier loading of the rod without the rod feeling "weighed down". I'm confident that when I put the WF6F on my 9' 4wt, it will work well too.
I'm sure many of you have made this very same discovery so I apologize for the repetition, but I was just thrilled with finding new enjoyment with my vintage collection of tackle.
Again, what is old is new again for this eccentric fanatic!
Todd
I've been an Ambushaholic the past few years for my steelhead swinging, but I've been too cheap to buy the Ambush lines in 4 and 5wt to match my trout rods. I decided to try making do with stuff I had and figured to upline each of my trout rods by one line weight with standard weight forward lines I had on hand. The 9' 4wt did ok with a 5wt Cabelas's weight forward and the 9'5wt also did ok with a cheap Cortland WF6F. While these setups worked, I still felt like I was working too hard.
I remembered that a couple weeks ago, I had experimented with uplining my old Sage RPL 9' 7wt by two line sizes by putting on a Sage Equator WF9F saltwater taper that I had from the days when I tried chasing bones on Kauai (without success). When I took this setup on the water, the line just flew! I was making single hand spey casts with ease and the rod didn't feel overloaded at all.
Well I decided to take the "uplining by 2" routine to my 9"5wt today and put on an old SA WF7F bass bug taper on and it was pure magic! Effortless spey casts with easier loading of the rod without the rod feeling "weighed down". I'm confident that when I put the WF6F on my 9' 4wt, it will work well too.
I'm sure many of you have made this very same discovery so I apologize for the repetition, but I was just thrilled with finding new enjoyment with my vintage collection of tackle.
Again, what is old is new again for this eccentric fanatic!
Todd