03-04-2007, 05:14 AM
I was fishing in Manitoba.
They have a slot limit on the lake. Too small or too large, you put em' back.
I got several Walleye. One or two were inside the slot. I could have kept them.
Nice fish to play though. Just about right for the 8wt rod.
The Pike had a limit too. You couldn't keep anything over 35".
Flatten the barbs.
I will have to say that a 35" Pike on that 8Wt Graphite Sage was getting close to the limit of that rod's elasticity.
The Fish n' game folks came around in bunches. Sometimes three in a bunch. Always at least two. One time Five of them, including two women came by. They ate dinner with us and went on, into the darkness. Brave, capable folks.
I had my Sage 8Wt, 9' and used a heavy fast sinking, weight forward line.
I started out with a 5lb tippet. Soon went to a home-made (I tied it up in the boat using barrell knots) leader with a 15# Tip.
That stopped the steady stream of lost flies to Walleye.
All the flies I used (that caught walleys) were Clousers and Wooly buggers. The Hooks were all tied much like DryRods fly. The Hook was up in the skirt.
I believe I missed a lot of strikes for that reason. But even strikes are part of the fun of it all.
Then the Pike began to catch my flies at the boat.
I had to scavenge some stuff out of another guy's tackle to put the braided steel leaders onto my 15Lb tippet.
It all sounds kinda Hokey. I always seem to wind up learning everything the hard way.
That much heavy, resistive stuff on the rod makes for the sound of an incoming Eagle going by your ear when you make an uncooridinated cast.
I cannot, in all my days on the water, with all the in-decent things that have happend, remember a bad day fishing!
I can remeber a lot of fisihing days when it was made all the better by getting inside a nice warm cabin and into some dry clothes.
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They have a slot limit on the lake. Too small or too large, you put em' back.
I got several Walleye. One or two were inside the slot. I could have kept them.
Nice fish to play though. Just about right for the 8wt rod.
The Pike had a limit too. You couldn't keep anything over 35".
Flatten the barbs.
I will have to say that a 35" Pike on that 8Wt Graphite Sage was getting close to the limit of that rod's elasticity.
The Fish n' game folks came around in bunches. Sometimes three in a bunch. Always at least two. One time Five of them, including two women came by. They ate dinner with us and went on, into the darkness. Brave, capable folks.
I had my Sage 8Wt, 9' and used a heavy fast sinking, weight forward line.
I started out with a 5lb tippet. Soon went to a home-made (I tied it up in the boat using barrell knots) leader with a 15# Tip.
That stopped the steady stream of lost flies to Walleye.
All the flies I used (that caught walleys) were Clousers and Wooly buggers. The Hooks were all tied much like DryRods fly. The Hook was up in the skirt.
I believe I missed a lot of strikes for that reason. But even strikes are part of the fun of it all.
Then the Pike began to catch my flies at the boat.
I had to scavenge some stuff out of another guy's tackle to put the braided steel leaders onto my 15Lb tippet.
It all sounds kinda Hokey. I always seem to wind up learning everything the hard way.
That much heavy, resistive stuff on the rod makes for the sound of an incoming Eagle going by your ear when you make an uncooridinated cast.
I cannot, in all my days on the water, with all the in-decent things that have happend, remember a bad day fishing!
I can remeber a lot of fisihing days when it was made all the better by getting inside a nice warm cabin and into some dry clothes.
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