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I'll try to help you out just a little bit. The DT stands for Double taper,means the line is the same on both ends. So when one end wears ont you can just turn it around and use the other end. F stands for floating. The HCH I think stands for the weight in grains,but I'm not sure.
It is better to go up a line size than go down a size. So you would be better off going with a weight foward 6 or a DT 7.
Just one more question. What are you going to use the bigger rod for?
Jim
I'll try to help you out just a little bit. The DT stands for Double taper,means the line is the same on both ends. So when one end wears ont you can just turn it around and use the other end. F stands for floating. The HCH I think stands for the weight in grains,but I'm not sure.
It is better to go up a line size than go down a size. So you would be better off going with a weight foward 6 or a DT 7.
Just one more question. What are you going to use the bigger rod for?
Jim
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I don't know if this is wisdom or not but I was fishing those small streams I would stick with the smaller rod. I fished over there a few years and my 9'er was too big.I wished that I'd had a shorter rod but I wasn't retired then and I didn't have one.
When I was working for a living I couldn't afford any thing and now that I'm retired I seem to be able to.
I like to use the little rod in places like Tantum Creek,Manastash(sp)Creek,Touchet and Tucannon rivers. And alot of places on the West side. My short rod is a Gloomis GL2 4wt.
Jim
I don't know if this is wisdom or not but I was fishing those small streams I would stick with the smaller rod. I fished over there a few years and my 9'er was too big.I wished that I'd had a shorter rod but I wasn't retired then and I didn't have one.
When I was working for a living I couldn't afford any thing and now that I'm retired I seem to be able to.
I like to use the little rod in places like Tantum Creek,Manastash(sp)Creek,Touchet and Tucannon rivers. And alot of places on the West side. My short rod is a Gloomis GL2 4wt.
Jim
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I caught a summer fish that was 21" long out of a small stream on the west side of the mountains.On my 4wt 7 1/2' rod. I was using a four pound tippet,and this is the only fish that I ever kept. It was fin clipped. The reason I kept it is that my granddaughter said "you go fishing and you never bring any home" I had to show her that I did. But back to the fish,it was all over the small pool that I was fishing in. It was a blast on that small rod.
Jim
I caught a summer fish that was 21" long out of a small stream on the west side of the mountains.On my 4wt 7 1/2' rod. I was using a four pound tippet,and this is the only fish that I ever kept. It was fin clipped. The reason I kept it is that my granddaughter said "you go fishing and you never bring any home" I had to show her that I did. But back to the fish,it was all over the small pool that I was fishing in. It was a blast on that small rod.
Jim
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