andrew stoehr
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First then, I guess you should decide on what kind of action you want and go from there. For example, the Cabela’s rod I cast had a stiffer tip than my Echo, if I remember correctly.
For nymphing, I personally like a softer-tip rod.
Randy
Randy, I think the main issue here is that at the price I hope to pay, my options will be limited, i.e. I may not get to decide what I want first (other than low price) and then shop for that!
I admit, though, I haven’t done my homework yet.
Jim,
Probably mostly single-hand stuff, e.g. dead-drifting nymphs and such for steelhead up in your neck of the woods.
I realize this is going to depend on a lot of factors, but do you find you can at least ballpark how it will take you to drift a certain distance?
I foresee myself ending up 9 hours from my car at sundown…
As for shuttling, my problem is that I’m usually in places where I don’t want to leave the boat (or the bike) unattended.
…during my cousin’s ill-fated relationship with his daughter and man did it look cool.
Zach
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I’m not sure I’m reading that part correctly!
Do you know the breaking strength (as a percent of the tippet) for the Palomar? I’ve been using the clinch for so long, just because I learned it early and it works for me. But of course, when I say it “works”, what I really mean is sometimes it holds, sometimes it don’t!
Anybody know of an easy-to-access on-line table of the various knots and their breaking strengths? That would be useful to book mark.
Berkely did a series of youtube videos pitting different knots against each other using a test jig, and the Palomar knot was the champion. I have used it on many different sizes of tippets, and I can honestly say I would never say to someone “sometimes it holds, sometimes it don’t.” In my experience, when tied properly, the Palomar always holds.
Well, if your knots always hold, you aren’t fishing for big enough fish
I have never tried Blanton’s braided loop technique. I looked at the instructions and it looks like a homemade version of the Cortland Braided Leader Loop. For some reason, I’ve never trusted them.
I don’t trust the store-bought ones.
Trout on the delaware eat grey comparduns during a sulpher hatch as long as they are the same size. Case closed…
That’s impossible.
Hmm. As a scientist who studies animal color (and therefore by necessity, a little about color perception), I’m having trouble with this and I’ve barely gotten through the first paragraph.
“Color is physiological effect” ? That’s not how we define it.
Rainbows look as they go because the wavelengths overlap? How would he describe how a prism works?
Anyway, I’ll take a look at the rest of it.
But, my hunch about fly lines is that they’re colored the way they are because fishermen can see them better, not because they’re harder for the trout to see them. If you’re under them (as the trout are) looking up at an opaque fly line against the sky, it’s probably going to look largely the same – as a dark line – no matter what color it is. Some light is going to reflect onto the underside of the fly line, but mostly, it will just be an opaque line.
Andrew
Edit: I’ve now read it. I don’t know the literature on trout vision, but I’m always skeptical of articles like this one that don’t provide their sources. At the end, he makes reference to this book by Curry about UV. There was some discussion of this book by the guy who blogs at “Turning over small stones”, who is a biologist (Curry is not, as far as I know). It’s even more dense than Trout U article, but it’s at least referenced, and written by somebody who knows how to navigate the scientific literature:
http://turningoversmallstones.blogspot.com/2009/09/ultraviolet-vision-and-trout.html
