What do you choose?

[Waterfox]

Imagine that you need to cast for big (6-12 pounds) trout, browns and rainbows...you are wading...a mouth of big river that flows to the lake...wind...6-7 wt rod...what do you choose?: Shooting taper+Amnesia and big weighted streamer...or WFFloating and small, light fly?

Regards

Waterfox

[Byron Zuehlsdorff]

Time of year?,,What river and lake??,,,,These can all effect what to choose. OH, yea, How much wind ? Around my spots that can determine fishing or not.

[Jed]

Add to Byron's questions, can you see the fish? Are the feeding? On what?

jed

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

Easy 6-12 lb trout, #10 Pheasant tail nymph to start on a 5wt floating line with a 10foot sinking tip line. If the PTN didn't work I'd switch to a Diawl bach. Thats what I'd use. It may not work but thats what I'd use.

[Buddy Sanders]

Waterfox,

Every day can be different, so why limit yourself. Unless you are very familiar with the waters and know what works best, take it ALL.

I'd think that for fish that large, a big streamer on a sinking line would be the ticket, but I have been wrong.

One rod so rigged, though I don't use shooting heads much. Probably just a sinking line or sinking tip depending on the depth of the water.

One rod with a floating line in case I needed it.

One rod rigged with a slow sinkig 'sly' type clear line.

I'd also have some extra reels and/or spools in case I needed something different.

I'd rather walk back and forth to the bank or truck a few times to get the right equipment than not fish effectively.

Good Luck!

Buddy

[lee s]

waterfox,
We are EYEtalian....we MUST keep it simple. We fish under two rules EVERYWHERE.
1 - Big fish eat little fish.
2 - Fish the edges.
For us it would be shooting heads and amnesia for maximum water column and distance coverage, wading or not, and baitfish immi's.
K.I.S.S. fishing.
....lee s.

[Silverexpress]

Suggested:

Fly Rod: Sage 2710-3 TXL
Reel; Ross Evolution "0"
Line: Sage Quiet Taper
Leader: 9 ft 5x
Tippet: 6x -> 7x
Indicator: Adams Size 18 (barbless)
Dropper: Beadhead Red Midge Pupae Size 22 (Barbless)

Option 1:
1. A fishing buddy who can swim like a dolphin and jump like a gazelle
2. ....with a big net

Option 2:
1. A fishing buddy with a Drift Boat who can paddle like a 455 hp merc.

Comments: No one suffers.

[Diane]

If I see bugs coming up off the water or bugs falling into the water I try to match it although I'm the first to admit I'm lousy at that.

If not, then I'd be swinging a honking big streamer. No amnesia line here though.

[MontanaMoose]

7 wt, sink tip, a lot of backing since the lake could be the escape hatch, 0x tippet and a big black leech pattern, unweighted. Maybe a small boat I could jump in at the mouth of the river for when I ran out of backing...or...a 3wt, DT, 14 ft hand tied leader to a 6 or 7x point, my 'sparse adams' on a fine wire Mustad #10 or 12 with a poorly tied improved clinch so that when each successive fish broke me off all they'd have is the fly in their lip which with that thin wired Mustad hoook would break down in a few days. I wanna go there !

Cheers,

MontanaMoose