1) choose the fly first and select a suitable fly line to carry it. either skagit or scandi... then select a rod to cast the line.
(my thought here is simple, if I can get away with light line, I try not to use heavy line, of course this is under the good performance standard)
2) modern graphite rod opens up a huge window of line selection for experimenting and try out to fit different fishing condition. To me, it is more fun to fish different lines (and different techniques) on one rod than fish one line over and over again.
3) experimenting different fly lines on one rod will help caster to understand the rod property and limit, thus, have better understanding the feel and casting mechanics.
4) simply share the joy I have in light line casting and fishing.
I would love to hear what you think. Aaron
sincerely,
Let's Look at each of you answers one at time.
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) choose the fly first and select a suitable fly line to carry it. either skagit or scandi... then select a rod to cast the line.
(my thought here is simple, if I can get away with light line, I try not to use heavy line, of course this is under the good performance standard)
The fly size and line weight to get the job done with least amount of effort.
Light lining a rod in on sense and lack of any better way to say it would be tip casting.
This is same physics you would use if casting to a fish 20 ft away verses a cast to a fishing 60 feet way.
You are using less of he rod to do the work.
But here is the fly in ointment you will use more energy to do the task.
As any good caster worth his weight in single malt will tell you least is not more.
The less mass I move for even rod the more energy I have to put into the equation.
I look at the total of efficacy of the rod and effeteness of the caster to do a given task.
Granted you can do but what are you sacrificing.
modern graphite rod opens up a huge window of line selection for experimenting and try out to fit different fishing condition. To me, it is more fun to fish different lines (and different techniques) on one rod than fish one line over and over again.
Modern carbon fiber fly rod ( in fact any fly rod) is a ineffective spring. Meaning the rod will do nothing a has no stored energy.
Carbon fiber and now micro carbon fiber is a very small filament many less than .001 in diameter but all hold the same characteristics and that is they are stiff.
The resident harmonics of the fly rod is developed by how fast it ovates (goes from round to flat and returns the rod you could call this quick.).
The harmonics are scaled through out the rod to give the desired effect for a given mass.
The more mass the deeper the load and deeper the load the efficiently we can use the ineffective spring.
Note The longer the mass the slower the rod will load. This has nothing to do with the old bamboo terminology of slow action or fast action rods. That deal with taper which is a different subject.
So granted you have a grain window which you can use but how much of the rod are you using and for what loss of efficiency of the given task.
experimenting different fly lines on one rod will help caster to understand the rod property and limit, thus, have better understanding the feel and casting mechanics.
This is very true and the understanding of casting characteristics is essential in understanding good cast mechanics.
The only down side is you can form some very bad habits if care is not taken for the given task.
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) simply share the joy I have in light line casting and fishing.
Sharing is what I do best.
The next thing is understanding the excise from the other person prospective.
Question for you.
What are you thoughts on underhand casting and or modern Scandinavian Style.