john switow
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Rod Selection,
Most often used: Scott G 885/3, Bauer M2,SA trout line.
Bigger trout stuff: Scott G 886/3, Bauer M3sl, SA trout line.
Streamers: Scott STS 906/3, Ross Canyon 3, Galloups sinking line or RIO 250 st 10′.
Smallmouth: Rio big nasty line on above outfit.
8wt: Scott STS, Bauer M4, Big nasty floater, SA 250 Sinking.
10wt: STS, Bauer M6sl, RIO Bnasty, SA 350 gr ST, Musky, striper, bass, northerns.
4wt: Pack rod backcountry Scott G804/4, Bauer M1, SA trout line.
3wt: Scott 803/3,Bauer M.5, SA trout line.
I have others but these are the rods I use often, well not the 10 wt, not often enough!When I was a kid I lived on a farm in Ky with a 5 acre pond full of bass, bluegill and mudcats, miss that place!
Hey Zach,
Please put me down for 1 medium short sleeve (I like Tim am 145 lb of “twisted steel and sex appeal”!) .Gentlemen (and I use that word losely!)
The only person I need to justify a new flyreel to is my wife.I know what Mike is talking about and really got an education in it yesterday, I had the pleasure of fishing with Mike. He fishes for Stripers with a big rods and lines. I have a 10 wt Scott STS, which I am pretty attached to and yesterday had a new SA 350 grain line on it. When the sink tip portion of the line hit the guides it sounded like a file running through the guides (tungsten filled). I learned something else that many of you may know, a 500 grain line is not a bad thing to cast if proprerly mated with a rod. Mike’s 10 wt rod with the 500 grain line required less effort to shoot than my 350 grain because it loaded the rod easily. You didn’t have to haul as hard or muscle the rod as much. That is another matter though, back to the lines. As a kid (30 yrs ago now!) I used to fish the 5 acre pond on our farm daily. There were rods with wire guides that would have grooves cut in them in as little as 2 weeks, with mono. Ceramics never had this problem, nor did the old tungsten carbide guides. The TC guides were not very slick though, and would abraid the mono in front of the lure quickly, ceramics didn’t do this either. I noticed as well that the same streamer stripped back easier with Milke’s rod and the ceramic guides had to be the difference.
Lastly if you think throwing a 6wt with streamers is work, try the 10wt with and 8″ long shad imitation, the the six weight will feel like a feather wand!
Best,
John
