10-22-2014, 02:54 PM
I haven't had my three weight out all summer and I was itching to use it before the snow starts to fly. I had taken my boys fishing at a little damn near our house a few weeks back so I thought I would try following that creek up into the brush. I took my daughter along with me who just turned one last month. Having her hanging off the front of me took some getting used to as did the peanut butter sandwich she slobbered all over my tackle. We got into this little guy and I couldn't have been happier for both of us, but it took a few strikes and miss fires before I got a solid hook.
I seem to always have this problem when I use this rod. I don't know if I am too early/aggressive on the set and I am pulling the fly out or if I am too late and they are spitting it out. It's a SHORT 6'6" 3 wt bargain rod that I purchased on a whim. I like the action well enough but I just can't seem to set the hook with any consistency. what's going on? Does the rod suck? Do I suck? Should I use a different setting technique? My theory is with a shorter rod, I should have to exaggerate my set, but I swear half of the time it's the opposite.
We got into another decent sized cutty on a bugger but my knot gave way and we lost him. [
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I was pretty ticked about the one that got away and all of the missed strikes when we spotted a bruiser in some slow shallow water. I couldn't get him to take the dry so I tied on a zebra midge trailer and BANG. It was quite a fight on that little rod but we prevailed and fed the whole family last night. He was just a hair under 20 and THICK. There were at least half a dozen more just like him in that hole. On my way back to the truck I spotted a fish swimming slowly away from me with my bugger in his mouth. All in all it was a great date night with the girl and I found a great new honey hole but I wish I knew what I was doing wrong with that little rod.
photo 1 - little cutty with the girl
Photo 2 - The Girl
Photo 3 - The big one
Photo 4 - The boy last week just down stream at the dam
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I seem to always have this problem when I use this rod. I don't know if I am too early/aggressive on the set and I am pulling the fly out or if I am too late and they are spitting it out. It's a SHORT 6'6" 3 wt bargain rod that I purchased on a whim. I like the action well enough but I just can't seem to set the hook with any consistency. what's going on? Does the rod suck? Do I suck? Should I use a different setting technique? My theory is with a shorter rod, I should have to exaggerate my set, but I swear half of the time it's the opposite.
We got into another decent sized cutty on a bugger but my knot gave way and we lost him. [
]I was pretty ticked about the one that got away and all of the missed strikes when we spotted a bruiser in some slow shallow water. I couldn't get him to take the dry so I tied on a zebra midge trailer and BANG. It was quite a fight on that little rod but we prevailed and fed the whole family last night. He was just a hair under 20 and THICK. There were at least half a dozen more just like him in that hole. On my way back to the truck I spotted a fish swimming slowly away from me with my bugger in his mouth. All in all it was a great date night with the girl and I found a great new honey hole but I wish I knew what I was doing wrong with that little rod.
photo 1 - little cutty with the girl
Photo 2 - The Girl
Photo 3 - The big one
Photo 4 - The boy last week just down stream at the dam
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