My favorite rod is a 1950 Heddon 8' 5wt bamboo that a dear friend, who has since passed, gave me as this one needed repair and he had others. It still fishes like new. My everyday go to rod is a TFO 7'6" 5wt 4 piece.
My favorite rod is a 1950 Heddon 8' 5wt bamboo that a dear friend, who has since passed, gave me as this one needed repair and he had others. It still fishes like new. My everyday go to rod is a TFO 7'6" 5wt 4 piece.
Most of my fishing is warm water for bluegill, crappie and bass with poppers and streamers. My go to rod for this fishing is a 9' 5wt Scott G2.
For trout on most streams and tailwaters, my favorite is a Winston BIIt 9' 4wt.
For smaller streams and when I just want to go light, it's an 8'3" 3wt Scott G2.
Jeff
For freshwater, it's my Sage XI3 5wt, for salt, it's the same rod in 7wt. I also like to use an 8ft 8wt Scott when fishing tight in the mangroves.
My favorite dry fly trout rods are:
Graphite- Winston WT 8'6" 4 wt
Fiberglas- Fenwick FF79
Bamboo- Don Recker built PHY Perfectionist
Slower rods really appeal to me because I like being able to feel the cast flex near the cork. The pace of these rods let me choose the direction and the rods do the rest. These rods have fished small creeks as well as the larger rivers of Montana and Idaho. My wife prefers her unsanded Far and Fine, and if I owned that rod it might be one of my favorites.
Cortland 8' 4wt Brook series.
I recently picked up a Sage ZXL 9'4wt on clearance. It is a wonderful instrument.
"Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it"
Ed Zern
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