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Well ive been out of the game for a few years , watched a couple of YouTube videos and went out Saturday and dropped a decent fish and the bug has hit hard again 🙃 most of my fishing if not all is lakes and currently i have a 6wt wf floating line … what would the be the go to setup to cover these waters .. do you take a couple of rods so one floating line and one intermediate ? ….cheers
If you are wading rather than fishing from a boat I would go for an intermediate tip line rather than a full intermediate. Lots of options in terms of sink rates etc.
You could also attach a polyleader to your floating line as a cheaper option
They have various sink rates from hover to fast sink.
Enjoy your comeback :-)
If walking and wading I’d be looking at a spare pool rather than carrying an extra rod.
Personally I find a 9’6″ 6wt and a floating line covers 90% or more of my stillwater needs, but then I do mainly fish streams and rivers so YMMV.
A line that sinks, or one that floats? Always a bit of a conundrum. I assume we’re only talking wet fly here (a dry obviously needs a full floating line and leader). I have found over years of trial and error that it depends on what you’re hoping to imitate with the fly. See, a lot (if not all) aquatic insects tend to move more or less vertically in the water, whereas small fish, frogs etc, move more or less horizontally. To mimic insects, I use a floating line and grease most of the leader; this enables the fly to dangle on the vertically-sunk tippet, so when you gently retrieve, it rises vertically and when you pause, it sinks again vertically. To mimic baitfish, you need to get at least the whole leader and preferably, a short part of the front of the fly-line sunk, so a retrieve then drags the fly through the water in a horizontal plane. Fishing around the shore where the water is relatively shallow, it’s enough to simply de-grease the leader and a bit of line to achieve this. Out deeper, I’d carry a second, intermediate (sinking) leader and swap them. If you’ve got a joining loop on the front point of your line, and loops on the butt end of the leaders, it takes no time at all to change them over.
thanks for the reply,s , much appreciated . curently have just been using the floating line for wet and something with a bead head but chucking a nymph on when i see some rising fish and can target them . havent done much with dry flys and ive never tried a river at all but keen to have a crack , its just lakes seem more accessable from home . so many cool new toys to check out and take all on board . 2 rods was just thinking it was easier to change as my luck will have fish moving the moment i take the fly off to rig another line and stop when im done lol . i do have the loop at the front so a leader swap might be the go and will no doubt see a new shiny rod and end up with a second eventualy
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