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Abe there’s a very straightforward solution – load up your 5 ZAxis with a 6 weight line. The greater weight in the head will do two things – carry the fly better and bend the rod deeper in the butt thus by proxy making it a slower rod. I think the Clouser line would be a good line for this or shop around for bass line with its short chunky head. Or get a 230 grain Sage bass line and string that through the guides. I have both a 5 Zed and a 230 grain bass line, I’ll pair them up tomorrow and let you know how they tango, its night time here in Australia and its pissing with rain ::)
Its important to also remember that when you’re throwing big wind resistant flies the end of your line is going to be travelling slower than it would with a small fly, so you need to adjust your timing, that essential pause as you wait for the line to straighten out in the air is going to have to be longer. Technique is pretty important.
Alternatively the Sage Bluegill is a very sweet little rod that also has applications on trout streams where big streamers are required.
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I wouldn’t dare post a pic of it Dave, Chuck Norris would be down here to steal it. 😉
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
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G’day Cameron, Glad you enjoyed the films.
The fish wasn’t “whacked”, it died in the net, probably had a heart attack. It was obese, we picked it up once to photograph it and it died. The fight time you see there is real time so it didn’t take long to land even though it was on a 5 weight, I don’t like messing around with a fish and have been known to speak out if I see someone “playing’ with a fish.
I’ve spoken to a few people about this fish and apparently amongst “slob” trout its not uncommon for them to die. “Slob” is an old term used for an estuarine trout. Its not a sea-runner as we incorrectly surmised, but is a fish that probably lived in the estuary and probably fed on elvers which are very high in fat content. For a fish of that size it put up a pretty sluggish fight. I imagine it had the fitness of a person who lived on MacDonalds burgers.
I also believe that if you can’t kill fish then you shouldn’t go fishing because inevitably, with all the best intentions for catch and release some are going to die, and we need to be realistic about this.
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Will, I drive a 1989 Landcruiser with 370,000 k’s on the clock and its so butch Chuck Norris WISHES he had one!!!!!! I need to take a teaspoon of cement powder every time I go driving so I can harden the f*@k up to deal with the absence of suspension.
The Volvo was at least a little eccentric and like Will I felt a certain uniqueness in knowing someone who owned one, let alone went fishing in one, and he was a rock star photographer as well!!!. Dave I loved your story about Rachael driving a friend home one night in the Volvo who’d had too much to drink. After a few minutes of sitting on the heated front seat she thought she’d peed herself.
I hope the Pajero can handle gravel roads ;D ;D ;D 😀 ::)
A snorkel is a waterproof extension of the air intake that goes up to the roof of the cabin. It means you can drive the thing underwater (because its a diesel).
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“Wanker” is a very useful pejorative, a bit like the “f” word and “bastard”. You can use it in many situations, from ribbing a mate for buying a girly off road vehicle instead of a Toyota Landcruiser, to getting yourself in a real stink. Multiple use of pejoratives across the spectrum of discourse is an Australia speciality.
I had a talk to Jerry Siem at the Denver show last year and asked Jerry what he thought the biggest single advance in fly rod technology and construction in the last decade had been. Expecting something about resins and graphite scrims I was surprised when he said “ferrule development”. Go with the 4 piece.
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Different croc – about 14ft. This one was hunting pigs in wallows behind the pandanus clumps – until we hooked a barramundi.
Who’d be a bird in a billabong.
This was the most troublesome croc I ever came across, not big but had no fear. In this area of half a mile of bank there were probably a dozen crocs but this one was a really hard case. I think it might have been “re-located” pretty soon afterwards.
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This argument is as old as fly fishing, some people take ferociously strong stands on certain positions, I don’t know why, they probably don’t why either. I’ve seen fights rage on internet boards on a number of subjects from winding left or right handed to to the usefulness/uselessness of double handers, and Sage v just about everyone else. Halford and Skues were hard at at it a century ago on upstream dry fly v nymphing and so on it goes. I’ve seen an argument rage for 150 pages on whether or not creep and drag are part of the casting stroke.
There’s only a couple of things that really matter, talking from your own experience, not someone else’s, giving credit where its due and fishing however you like to fish with whatever you like to fish with.
Please just don’t try and tell me what I should and shouldn’t be doing, and what I should and shouldn’t be fishing with – I prefer to make my own mistakes and to learn from them, that’s a condition of being human.
Zach you run a great board.
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Team Sage.
I have never felt the need to up-line a ZAxis rod, not even with a +.5 fly line. I use the Rio Selective Trout II and for me its a beautiful combination.
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You’re right Simon, if we believe all the crap that’s thrown at us 24/7 we’re all about to drown in a rising ocean, burn to death, get blown away by giant storms, relive the Grapes of Wrath or die of the flu. >:( >:( >:( >:( 😀
Every day above ground is a good old day it seems. 😎
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Like Dave I think the fly is lost in the bg of the timber, might have been better positioned against the reel seat, or the cork.
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We used a sharkskin line in Tasmania at a casting jam a week or so ago and the general complain was how badly it stuck to the blank…… 3 of the guys casting it were FFF MCCI’s and the other 4 were CCI’s so it weren’t the casters. I don’t like the noise, its as simpleas that, especially when you use one with those REC guides, sounds like banshees fighting in a tin shed.
I’m very surprised if anything with a welded loop sinks in the tip because there’s no opportunity for any water to wick up the core. And if it does apply a little dressing.
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