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square tail
10-10-2006, 08:50 AM
looking for and help and advice for skagit lines with g.loomis 13'4 dredger
spey rod new to skagit casting any help would be of great advice thanks
will:confused:



Ringlee
10-10-2006, 09:08 AM
What weight rod?
square tail
10-10-2006, 11:32 AM
sorry it is a 7/8 weight rod thanks to all that help me out :D
will
bconrad
10-10-2006, 02:18 PM
Rio's website recommends a Skagit 450 with no cheaters for that rod. So even if you go with a different brand, or make your own, you should be good with about 450 grains for the body. I believe that the Skagit recommendations are also supposed to include a 15 foot tip, which is probably going to be around 95-109 grains for that weight rod. This gives you in the neighborhood of 550 grains for the whole line, in case you're building one.

If anyone feels I need correcting, please chime in!
pescador do mosca
10-10-2006, 05:10 PM
Don't forget the head to rod length ratio when you are figuring for your head either - 3-3.5 x's the length of your rod. As far as the recs though, I believe that BConrad is correct in the assumption of the 15 ft head.

:)
fredaevans
10-11-2006, 03:37 AM
http://www.rioproducts.com/pages/speyrecs.asp

For future reference, the above is (Simon G's) recommendations for their lines to almost every (spey) rod ever built.
Paul Huffman
10-20-2006, 11:43 AM
Oh, crap, Fred, it looks like Rio moved that helpful link. Does anyone know a new url for it?
Brent Comer
10-20-2006, 12:27 PM
It looks like they shuffled some pages around. Here's a link to the PDF of the line recommendations (PDF):

www.rioproducts.com/photos/file/2007%20Spey%20line%20recs1.pdf

Here's the general spey section:

www.rioproducts.com/page.php?recKey=9
fredaevans
10-21-2006, 07:36 AM
Oh, crap, Fred, it looks like Rio moved that helpful link. Does anyone know a new url for it?

How the hell's that for timing; post the link .. and the busy beaver's at RIO roll you over in 24 hours.:confused:

One other 'Skagit Head' set up that's turning out to be a real blasting casting machine is a combo of the Vision ACE shooting head topped off with a sinking tip of choice. Behind the shooting head connect it up to a RIO (or someones) .030 running line.

Trust me, you don't know how far you can chuck a fly until you run one of these puppies!