Fly Fishing

[zenmic]

Never hurts to have a backup. I like my 9' 5wt Orvis Clearwater. If I know for sure I am going to do just fly fishing, I break it out and love it. I am surprised that Bass Pro could not hook you up with the replacement/repair for St. Croix. Once you actually get good/decent with good flyline, then you can cast crap line as well. My Orvis gets good stuff, my 3D-printed reel has some Amazon special made from the finest Chinesium, floating, weight-forward flyline. Stuff that I can and will just abuse.

Not to hi-jack the thread. I do have question for the more experienced fly fisher-people around. What is the opinion of the textured flylines? I have never used it on the water. When I was taking classes, one of the instructors handed me a setup spooled with textured line. It was interesting to use. What little research I have done is that that stuff is way more expensive. Take for example the Orvis Pro series of flyline. I am predominately a freshwater fisherman. Mostly sunfish and largemouth bass.

[JonM]

From what they told me, stock has been really slow in coming lately. Like a lot of stores out there, they're out of a lot of everything. Even when I first got the St. Croix, it wasn't the length I had originally wanted, but it's what they had. At least with the Orvis, it meets the specs I had in mind. It was a little more expensive, but not by much. At least the Orvis came with a tube. All the St. Croix had was a rod sock. The reel I had bought for it was an Orvis Clearwater II, so it even matches the new rod. Everything I've heard about the Clearwater rods has been mostly positive, so I'm probably in a better situation anyway.

[JonM]

I picked up an inexpensive 3wt and took it out to the lake this past weekend, both Saturday and Sunday. Holy crap that was fun. I was coasting up and down the bank in my fishing kayak all around the lake with small terrestrials tied on. The fish were absolutely hammering them all weekend long. I lost count of how many I ended up catching - everything from small bluegill too tiny to even swallow the fly up to bass. I left all of my conventional gear at home and I didn't regret it for a second. When I wasn't using the 3wt, I was throwing larger poppers and bass flies on a 7wt. That was a lot of fun too. Almost everything that hit my flies did so the moment they hit the water, so I had to be ready for the hookset with almost every cast.

[Killerito]

Just started fly fishing.
picked up 2 cross water kits
swapped out the reels. Need to find another 8wt rod so I can have one of each line type. Have yet to catch something on one that’s not a blue gill tho lol

[Junglepeanut]

8 wt? What are you primarily fishing for?

And the biggest piece of advice I can give a new fly fisherman is buy quality line..... it truly makes all the difference in the world, that is the one place you really can't cut corners on. Good luck and enjoy. It's a really good time..... Also bluegill are really fun on a light weight rod and cork poppers, the little bastards smash those things

[Killerito]

Mainly stripper
But I throw it around every where.
Using scientific anglers mid grade likes for now

[zenmic]

Striper is on my list for fly fishing catch. I am eventually going to get a decent 9wt for that. There was a sale going on, on Woot.com for flyfishing combos last week.

[Mailmanmike]

I'm likely going to dedicate one rod to throwing 5wt sinking tip line and one to floating line. I'm looking at a roll of Scientific Anglers Frequency for the sink tip line. Has anyone here used this line before? If so, how well does it cast?

Another fly angler checking in!

It might be cheaper to get a second spool for the reel you have and use one spool for sink tip and one for floating. That way you can just keep the spool in your bag and change as you go or as the conditions dictate.

I've been looking at the frequency sink tip line myself for streamer fishing. Interested to see what anyone else thinks of it to!