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Spydeyrch
Spydey, I just put a new 9'6" 8wt for sale on the "sell" page. Might work for ya???
Randy
Thanks Randy. It looks like a nice rod. I will have to think about it.
Question for everyone:
I found a nice rod for a sweet deal!! It is a 10' 7wt 4 piece rod. Normally it goes for $550-ish but on sale for $295 with an additional 20% OFF of it. the only thing is that is says it is a saltwater rod.
What are the differences between saltwater rods and freshwater rods? Besides the obvious that the SW (saltwater) rods have to withstand the salts and sands while the FW (freshwater) rods wouldn't have to. But what else? If there really isn't anything else, I am thinking about getting this rod for salmon and steelhead fishing. What do you think?
-Spdyey
Spydey, I'm tellin' ya friend, I think you are making a mistake buying a 7wt. or 8wt. to hang a 40lb Chinook on in heavy stream flow. Each to their own of course, just trying to save ya from making a costly mistake. Last I'll say about that, do what ya think is right for you.
Randy
Spydey, I just put a new 9'6" 8wt for sale on the "sell" page. Might work for ya???Randy
I would buy sinklines rod and put a lampson konic reel on it and a royal wulff ambush taper line on it and go fishing, if your gonna go over 8 wt on a fly system you should just hop on the spey bandwagon.. a 10 wt single hand flyrod is bulky and cumbersome.. if you catch 100 kings in oregon, mabe 25 of them are gonna exede 20 lbs, 35 and 40 lb kings are the trophies, the average king comes in between 12 and 18 lbs, use heavier tippet for big king rivers, and a stouter reel, but a 10 wt for weekender fishing puts you in the territory of now having to buy another rod for steelhead... and thats just a waste of money-
Dude, Randy's St. Croix is an awesome rod. You should at least go look at it!
Spydey, no pressure at all about my rod, I just offered it that's all.
Hitman's advice should be followed to some degree (less my rod) as I believe he has probably landed more Salmon & Steelhead on a fly rod than all us other fly flingers on this forum combined!
I use to fish Salmon & Steelhead with a 10wt Sage that in those days was a much heavier, though slower action rod than what we have today. I am a big guy, and very strong in those days so swinging a 10wt. all day for me was not a problem, but could be for a some folks. We use to hang (many snagged) 50-chums a day on the Kilchis so that was a lot of heavy fish to fight. My old 10wt. was a great all around Salmon/Steelhead rod.
I'm gonna look for an old photo I can snag and share here just for nostalgic fun. I'll go look???
Randy