my list has shrunk quite a bit in the last year: For trout I use a 4wt for floating line applications and a 5wt for sinking lines. This goes for both rivers and lakes but I mainly fish lakes when I do go trout fishing.
For beach fishing year around I use a 7wt 9'6". Can go small or large with this setup. Used to use a 5wt for the winter fish but found if I wanted to throw larger flies or the w*ind kicked up I felt undergunned. The 7wt is a great all around rod. For larger salmon in the rivers and steelhead I will go with an 9' 8wt. -sean On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:23:26 Willy Gevers wrote: >Here's a question - what would your perfect rod assortment be for the >fishing that you do? My friends who golf obsess over club selection and >which ones they should carry. I am thinking about picking up another rod and >as a pretext, listed what I thought the rods >would be that would ideally cover typical WA state flyfishing - without >making life too complex. (by the way this is the perfect question to ask >with Christmas just around the corner!) > >Small Streams: 7 1/2' for a 2 > >Trout - Yakima and lakes: > >9' for a 3 (dry) >9' for 4 (nymph) > >Beach: winter coho and SRC > >9' for a 4 (same rod as above) > >Beach: summer coho > >9'6" for a 6 > >Summer Steelhead and boat coho fishing: > >9'6" for a 7 > >Winter Steelhead, Chums, Rockfish, Kings > >9' for a 8 or 9 > >(and perhaps some backup rods.) > >Any thoughts...? > > > > > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
