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Crs2006

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  • Birthday 04/30/1984

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  • About Me:
    Fly Fishing for 25 years. Currently fishing Florida salt almost exclusively
  • What I do for a living:
    Work too hard and dont fish enough

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  1. THis is a great post Cary Can attest to Trilene Big Game, been using it for maybe 15 years. the only thing I dont use it for is tippets I find diameter is more important than stiffness, though a too stiff mono (like mason in heavy weights) doesnt turn over as well. Tarpon get trilene for butts and mids looped to a furled bimini loop in 16 lb mason, to a 50 or 60 lb fluoro shock. with the new low stretch fly lines, the trilene and furled bimini putt enough stretch in to be a shock absorber (the furled bimini protects the less stretchy mason, and trilene has nice stretch). you may not get a good hookset at super long distance, but thats kind of a universal truth, the further that fish is away the less likely you are to bury the hook as well. Every other salt rig is trilene in 40 for the butt, 30 mid, to usually a 20lb fluoro, and I'll tie in lighter tippets with a yucatan knot of needed off that. I love Flip but his argument against the little loop in the fly line seems a bit...out there. I pre-tie everything and have it ready in leader wallets. if a fish drags my leader down the rub rail of my boat and knicks it, I'd rather be able to swap that out quickly and get back in the game. You can throw a fly line loop literally without a rod, I cant believe that a handful of grains and an inch of extra stiffness is noticeable to anyone who isnt competition casting.
  2. only rooster from this years hunt for grande. The hunt now moves to year 4. Hard to beat Baja though IMG_7982.MOV IMG_7981.MOV
  3. my two favorite 8 wts of all time are the loomis NRX and the old Helios 2 from orvis ( I actually prefer the 2 to the 3 in an 8) After that probably the sector and meridian from Scott. NRX, H2, and Meridian can all be found for around the MSRP of your recon online (often less). I used the H2 for years for bass, and it’s a killer stick for that, and down where I live now it’s basically my dedicated snook rod with a SA titan clear tip on it. Of the three the H2 can handle more grain weight and that’ll turn over bigger bugs for you better.
  4. I’ve thrown SA grand slam taper on the Axiom II X 7 wt and it’s a near perfect pairing imho if you prefer to shoot but still want to be able to pick half the fly line off the water.
  5. I would love if manufacturers would put a “best grain window” on their rods along with whatever rod weight they designate it. Not perfect, but will help match lines, because there seems to be basically no rules in what you call a line anymore.
  6. Thank man. It’s called a “dragon tail” basically it’s a cat toy David Mangum tied to a hook for migratory tarpon and now Orvis sells it
  7. Some ties headed to the East Cape. a ladyfish imitation , or “machete” as it’s locally known. a fly I call “burrito grande” Hi Tie sardinas various Mullets including the “Mona Lisa”
  8. If he doesn’t try to put you on the reel, don’t give that to him. Sometimes big fish just plain don’t run, and you can whip em fast just hand lining them. if you hit em and they take off, let em go, keep a bend in the rod and light tension on the line hand so it’s under control and keep that hand away from your reel. The further you rod hand and line hand are apart the less the line jumps around and you have a much better chance of cleanly clearing the line to the reel. If you have a lot of loose line around your feet or in a bucket when you strike, and he takes off, it also helps to turn the reel away from your body as you are clearing the line.
  9. Man, I wouldn’t expect that on a reel that gets rinsed. I’ve full on swam with a much cheaper reel, put it in the reel bag after the trip and didn’t rinse for months and only had some rust in a spool retention clip. A modern anodized frame shouldn’t do that. There’s stories of Tibors and Charltons going in the drink for months on end and getting scrubbed up and sent back to fishing after they were found.
  10. I apologize man I don’t know how to fully close. I appreciate the offer I recently sold it elsewhere also how do I actually close it?
  11. Im probably in a minority but I love a rose lens for basically all light fishing the flats (and driving too). I have a green mirror too which gets a lot of use, especially in west florida surf fishing where its all over white sand, but basically anything else I just love the rose lens. I like to think of fishing lenses like a filter on a camera as opposed to a light blocking tool. I want the right light coming in in the right intensity.
  12. For Fenwick i'd have to second (or third or fourth or fifth) the Medalist. It would be basically the classic old school USA rig If not that, the Fin-Nor. I have a soft spot for non-ported reels
  13. I’ve got a redington predator 7’10” very similar I fished 280g on it was a perfect match. Probably cheaper than the Sage.
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