03-17-2010, 02:13 AM
One of my friends let me borrow his z-axis 6 and 7 wt, and a 5wt helios mid flex. Fished the helios and the 6wt today and..WOW!!! I dont know how I fished without either of these rods. They both made casting pretty much effortless!
I used the set the sage as a nymph setup, and added a bunch of extra weight just to see how it would handle it. Seems like 4 split shot and 2 bugs were casting with ease. (both roll casting and false casting) I only actually needed either 1 or 2 split shot to get the job done, when i was actually fishing the rod that is all i had on.
My eyes are a little bad, so i set the helios up with a doubble dry setup, first fly was a small bwo( they werent hatching i just needed a strike indicator) and a midge pattern behind. They were going stupid for the midge pattern, as a matter of fact, they shredded all 5 of the producing pattern i had by mid day.
I only fished for about 4 hours, but about an hour of that was whipping around different set ups seeing how the rods would handle them.
My total for the day was 13 browns. All fish were caught on drys
I'll be hitting the weber again tomorrow if anyone has the day free and wants to catch some fish!
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I used the set the sage as a nymph setup, and added a bunch of extra weight just to see how it would handle it. Seems like 4 split shot and 2 bugs were casting with ease. (both roll casting and false casting) I only actually needed either 1 or 2 split shot to get the job done, when i was actually fishing the rod that is all i had on.
My eyes are a little bad, so i set the helios up with a doubble dry setup, first fly was a small bwo( they werent hatching i just needed a strike indicator) and a midge pattern behind. They were going stupid for the midge pattern, as a matter of fact, they shredded all 5 of the producing pattern i had by mid day.
I only fished for about 4 hours, but about an hour of that was whipping around different set ups seeing how the rods would handle them.
My total for the day was 13 browns. All fish were caught on drys
I'll be hitting the weber again tomorrow if anyone has the day free and wants to catch some fish!
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