For the home waters it's the Payne 101 with the Hardy Lightweight LRH.
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Posts: 3723 03/02/2009 00:51 Local user |
Brackett Winston Quad 7'9 2/2 4/5wt. with a Ross San Miquel 2 or A&F Spitfire Meek 55. This rod does it all in Yellowstone Country.
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Posts: 1938 03/02/2009 01:08 Registered User |
These three usually in the car.
Small streams, Leonard 38 Maxwell Hunt with a G1 Ross and DT4Sylk. Medium, Payne 198, with Ross G2 and DT5 Sylk. Larger, around home anyway, and the rod I use the most, Schroeder 7 1/2' 2/2, Ross G2 with TT5, or Sylk DT5. gofish |
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Posts: 2199 03/02/2009 01:35 |
Toss up between an Orvis 7 1/2' Battenkill paired with a 1494 from the early 40's or a rod I finished out on a 7613 blank made for me by Streamer which
is paired with a SA 456.
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Posts: 80 03/02/2009 08:34 |
Most often a Deitrich Bros. 7' 2" 4wt with a JA Forbes Thistle and a DT4wt Terenzio
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Posts: 234 03/02/2009 08:50 |
For the past 3 months the only grips I've had in my hands have been on a snow shovel or mop from, alternately, snow or rain here in the mid-west. However,
last year, I'd say it was an 8' 5 wt. Dirigo. I recently received an 8' 5 wt. hollowbuilt rod from David Norling that, if my all too brief lawn
casting encounters prove correct; will be tough to get out of my hands this next year. What a gem.
Pat "He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly
fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."
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Posts: 59 03/02/2009 08:56 |
Last summer most often Pickard 806 and Hardy Bougle IV 3 1/4". This summer rivals are P&M PPP Colorado and new Hardy Perfect 3 1/8"
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Posts: 298 03/02/2009 08:57 |
7 1/2', 3/2, 1 1/2F Heddon Black Beauty would be my Go-To.
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Posts: 885 03/02/2009 09:12 |
Fries Katana 7,5ft #4 paired either with a waterworks and a rio sensitive trout wf4 (too heavy a line in the tip section for most cane rods I own but perfect
for the parabolic-type rods like the Katana) or a Featherweight with a Cortland clear creek wf4.
will get a Thramer 8ft3" #4 hollowbuilt shortly that will probably be my No.1 rod on spring creek I most often fish. Will be paired with a Featherweight or Lightweight and line to suit (guess a Quiet taper WF or DT4 should do well on this rod). |
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drmarty |
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Posts: 6 03/02/2009 10:20 |
Thramer Signature Classic 7.5 Ft 5 wgt
Art Weiler Garrison repro 202e 4 wgt Orvis Mid-Arbor reels Tight lines, Marty |
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Kaneman1 |
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Posts: 139 03/02/2009 10:45 |
Per Brandin 8', 3pc. HB Quad paired with 3 3/8 Hardy Perfect and Cortland 444 DT5
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Posts: 563 03/02/2009 12:06 |
I use many rods but I suppose that if I were going fishing and had no idea what I'd find when I got there, I'd take my Orvis patent-pending (very dark
cane) 7-1/2 2pc. Reel: Hardy Lightweight or Orvis CFO; both are always in the bag.
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bubbleback |
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Posts: 14 03/02/2009 12:52 |
Bill Taylor 7.5 ft hollow built 4 weight quad paired with an Orvis CFO loaded with a Courtland 444 DT. Add a six foot braided leader and three feet of 6x and
your good to go all day on my home waters.
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Posts: 606 03/02/2009 13:40 |
Trout: W&M GF8040 with my Hardy Sunbeam loaded with a WF6F, spare spool with a WF6I (Ghost Tip) and a Pflueger
Medalist 1494 with a DT5F.
Bass: 8' Orvis Battenkill with a Pflueger Medalist 1495 WF7F and a BPS Classic reel with a WF7I (Ghost Tip) and DT6F.
The trout takes the fly, the line tightens and it's like I was blind, but now I
see.
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cutthroattroutnm |
Jack Howell's Rendition of the 1952 Dickerson 7613 | #35 | ||
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Posts: 34 03/02/2009 22:20 |
Jack's rod has been my go-to rod for nearly 15 years, and for about 2/3 of that time was the only rod I fished, whether it was on the Green, the Frying
Pan, the San Juan, or small Rocky Mountain streams in Colorado and New Mexico. It's a rod for all seasons. And for all of that time, it has been paired
with only a Peerless 1-1/2, quite simply a peerless accompaniment to a classic taper. Line has always been a DT-5, but the brand has changed from time to
time. The only line I really didn't like was the Cortland Sylk. It felt weird in the hand and acted weird during the cast as compared to a standard DT-5
from Cortland, Scientific Anglers, etc. Maybe others have had a different experience with that line.
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Posts: 49 03/02/2009 23:35 |
For me its my A.J. Thramer Hollowbuilt, 8ft. 2/2 5wt. The reel is a Peerless 1 1/2 with a Wulff TT 5 wt. line.
Bob
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Posts: 43 03/03/2009 00:41 |
My goto trout rod is a Jim Downes 7' 5wt Quad (yeah I said Quad ... Jim told me at the show, where I bought it several years ago, that it would be his
first and last quad
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perfectly and has subdued some very large fish without a set.
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Posts: 657 03/03/2009 01:38 |
Hi Guys, Last season it was an 8' quad built on a Heddon Featherweight taper. A CFO IV with an Orvis beige 5wt. Wonderline and Cortland braided leader
assisted. Jay Edwards
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Posts: 1048 03/03/2009 22:56 |
My two favorite combinations: Summers 275 with a Robichaud 2 3/4 and a Carpenter 8' 3/2 5wt with a Peerless 7.
FFBill
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Posts: 2107 03/03/2009 22:58 |
Summers 260 and Baby Hermann with DT-4
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