Does a 3 weight have the backbone to set the hook using small hooks with weedgaurds? Also, what the biggest fly you can normally use? Is a #6 fathead diver too big?
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Does a 3 weight have the backbone to set the hook using small hooks with weedgaurds? Also, what the biggest fly you can normally use? Is a #6 fathead diver too big?
Seldom if ever use weedguards. On my 3 weights I regularly throw large hooks, up to 1/0 at times. A Number 6 Diver should not be a problem.
Tim
And you have no problem setting the hook into panfish or bass?
Doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Of course I "Set" the hook. Folks have accused me of trying to pull their tonsils out (lol). I use a 9 ft rod.
Tim
Would the length greatly effect its hooksetting power because i was looking at 7'9".
Not a problem. 7'6" 3-wt.
Nice Smallmouth!! What fly is that?
BF,
I regularly use 3 wts, from 7' to 9', for bass fishing.
Like Tim, I have no problem setting the hooks on flies up to about 2/0...and I do use weedguards extensively on my flies.
But, as he mentioned, you do have to 'set' the hook when bass fishing. The 'length' of the rod isn't much of an issue there.
Casting larger flies with lighter rods is an excercise in compromise. You aren't going to cast a 2/0 deer hair bug far with a 3 wt.. You can cast them 30 feet accurately...
Your #6 diver won't be a problem.
By the way, it is a blast to fight a bass on a 3 wt. rod...which is why I do it.
Buddy
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