brian dunigan
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The more pieces, the more expensive – but multi-piece rods are easier for travel.
Zach recommended a 3wt, but I might be inclined to go with a 4wt instead – it’s just a little more versatile if you head to a larger stream or do some warmwater fishing.
Too bad the Sage DS2 line isn’t around any more – I had one for quite a while and I thought it was a great rod for the applications you’re talking about.
but when the indicator jerked loose of his teeth, the copper john behind it buried right in the top of that fish’s mouth. I quickly bailed off the bridge and landed him coming out the other side. 🙂
Dude, that’s a pretty long story just to say that when you get bored, you start snagging fish.
I guess I don’t have to show up with the hat after all, if you already have a picture of me in it.
bd
So you’ll be coming to the Nashville area to do some fishing and give me some complimentary casting lessons any time now, right?
bd
Umm you can’t eat bonefish. ;D
The guide I fished with in Hawaii said they eat them there – apparently they’re bony (who’d have guessed?), but you can grind up the meat and make fish cakes out of them.
Based on my striper fishing with a fly, it definitely helps to have a bait on a planer board at the same time so you can cast to fish that have been “teased up.” This isn’t much different from the way they fly fish for billfish, so it must be okay.
The snags are really what get you. Farther downriver, there are not as many obstructions, and you can let a striper run a long way. In the upper Cumberland, there are so many trees and brush piles that it can be hard to keep a fish out of them. If they run toward the middle of the river, you’ve got them – you can usually let them run all they want (unless they find a channel marker buoy). But if they run for the bank, it’s hard to stop them with a flyrod.
It can be done, but you’re going to lose some fish to the snags.
bd
Maybe it’s just me, but Sage seems to be more “fashionable” among fly fishing circles than G. Loomis.
One other thing I’ve had a little success with is trailing the streamer with a smaller fly – maybe a #8 or 10 prince or bugger. I’m still experimenting with figuring out the “best” fly for the trailer.
The vast majority of the fish you see with “jerk strip” fishing will run up to the streamer but never take it. A few of those fish will hit the smaller trailer fly just before you get to the boat.
This method sacrifices numbers for quality, and you make many, many casts between fish. So one or two extra fish on the trailer really counts for something.
