Xi2 VS Big Brown
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I went with a #9 Clouser line from Rio. It’s realy like a 9 1/2 weight line but, it will turn over a small house cat and you can send it into the next zip code. I will make a note of the wulff line. Thanks for the reply.
Nice photos everyone (and Neal’s look especially crisp for some reason). Everybody overestimates fish sizes, and it’s even easier to do when you’re excited for someone else. Diane Bristol caught a nice fish in the Madison last summer and we came in to the shop having convinced ourselves it was an easy 23″. The guys in there were understandably skeptical, so we looked at the photos, and the fish was probably more like 20-21″. Not a huge difference lengthwise but it probably accounted for 3 lbs. of weight. A very nice fish still.
I don’t mind people taking WAGs at bigger fish; how many of us catch enough five pound trout to really be able to eyeball them? (Mike Anderson, put your hand down and sit there quietly, you are hurting the others’ feelings. ;)). I do get annoyed when people toss out the “twenty inches” moniker to describe any moderately large trout. I can’t tell you how many Atlantans I’ve heard claim to catch “a whole mess of twenty inchers” on the Chattahoochee. If there’s enough twenty inch trout anywhere in the Hooch to make a “mess,” then those trout are carp.
Zach
PS, as Bob Riggins and maybe two or three others still with us can attest, every fish in this thread weighs 11.4 lbs.
Zach
Zach, you should charge Sage for the great publicity this thread is generating about the Xi2 rod! Some serious slobs posted here with the blue stick landing all with confidence.
A, nice Muskie ;D What weight Xi2 was used to bring him in and how long was the fight?
By the way and FYI, I agree totally with the fish size issues. I posted recently about my trip to North Georgia dream stream and the hogs we landed and how I was blown away when I actually measured them only to find that they were all about 20”. I owe it to Lando for helping me get straightened out about fish size. Now I carry a boga grip along which is invaluable for weighing big fish but still the length/girth issue is commonly overestimated. Also, the new Scott S4 (wipe saliva from mouth) has a 20” mark on the rod, it’s the little things.
edited, ‘/”, Lando you are a Nihilist, ha.
Also, the new Scott S4 (wipe saliva from mouth) has a 20′ mark on the rod, it’s the little things.
That is a big muskey, but I have never seen a fish that goes 20 feet………… 😉
The largest resident brown I’ve ever personally seen was 29inches. We both thought it would have been 28. The guy I was fishing with that day caught 4 over 20, that was some kind of day I’ll not soon forget.
How much would it have weighed?
No idea but my guess would have been 9 to 10.Length I dont find hard to estimate, weight I do and I never really trust or give it much thought. Put a 5pd brick in most people hands and the majority wont come close, either badly under or over estimating.
Eitheway as many have said.
Who cares. Beuatiful specimen,I fouled hooked and landed a 31″ brown on the Cumberland that was big, healthy, looked normal–and only weighed 8 pounds.
The Xi2 is hands down my favorite personal rod but for client rods I mostly use TFO TICR’s which is a great streamer rod too. I’ve got the 7 and the 9 wt in an Xi2 and like them both equally well. I almost never cast floating lines with them unless fishing on the salt. When I do cast floating lines the Sage equator lines (SA version) seem to work great for me. I don’t know much about the taper of those lines but I can tell you that they shine on a Xi2, which I assume is what they were designed for. I picked a few spools of it up cheap when Rio took over the line and have been nothing but impressed with it, even in cold temps. I only wish I would have bought all STP had at the time.
When I’m fishing fresh water I usually throw 250 on the 7wt and 375 on the 9wt. The 7wt paired with a 30′ head 250 grain streamer express is a casting machine!
Nice Musky Aaron. Where are you located? I can’t find anyone who will put the time in with me to go after those guys… Its hard work, gas cost is high,
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