midnightmoonlight

Overwhelmed a little at the price of reals lately and the need for a sophisticated reel escapes my understanding. I always hand line my fish in. the reel just holds the line and looks nice. I'm not sure I could land a fish using Drag on a reel. I bring them in fast and release. I fish for salmon steel head browns rainbows brookys bass walleye and even recently long nose gar. 40+ years of flyfishing and my rods keep getting lighter and the old reels are heavy. I have Madison encounters battenkill phlugers martins and sage. 3wt rods to 10wt. Balance seems important. My old 70s martin mg3 is the same weight as my newer battenkill 1. I was looking at my battenkill 5/6 disk drag with three spools and cant believe the price on fleabay for these reels.How do you choose your reel to match your rod? What's your favorite reel? I like my battenkill I 3/4 and the encounter isn't a half bad reel either. I choose my reel bu what wt line is on it but as I age it's become apparent there is a sweet spot for each rod I have.

I thought they did reuse reel seat but my memory isn't so good. Rods been broken a while and my memory isn't what it used to be. Reel seat is very similar but it appears they replaced it with the zg helios

Just did a rod and reel inventory. I think I might need therapy

I guess the original maroon zero gravity was followed by the zerogravity helios. it looks like orvis sent me a zf helios not sure if they really just made it but that's what they told me.

Curious if anyone else has had orvis make a new rod for them instead of just fixing it. So my old zero gravity's tip broke. I liked the rod even though reviews were not real positive. It was a 9' 4wt 3 1/8oz. Now it's a newly made original zero gravity helios but made with stronger materials and is only 2 1/8 oz now. Took it for a little test tonight and it's crazy better then it was. I'm thinking of testing it side by side with the new helios to compare. They said it's a similar taper with stronger materials but has the original reel seat and its not maroon anymore. I'm super happy about it but have no idea what it really is maybe a cross between zg and helios 3 or just the new helios with original zg branding hmmm

roscoe to hancock is my base plan

Oh yeah. I never fished anywhere around there

I wont be there long at all. Going for work. Im going to try to fish early 4am monday 5pm monday 4am tuesday, maybe tuesday night also. Then I have to go back home. If you have any specific spots I should try let me know road names pools exc would be great. So I can fish at night there? I need to tie some flies this weekend and get ready. The closer to delhi the better. I kind of need two spots one for mornings close to delhi at night I can drive a bit. Im not sure exactly where I staying yet. Its a last minute trip.

Ill be in Delhi Monday and want to fish the west branch. Where is a good spot this time of year relatively close to delhi? Thanks

Great flies everyone

Got the flies today great work everyone. Those big purple ones I tied are a little heavy on my 6 weight. But using the duck and chuck method I caught 3 nice fat large mouth bass a few days ago

Great Flies everyone

Got my flies yesterday great work everyone!!

Ill wait but couldn't you make up the sets one fly short for everyone including David and when he sends the flies he can get a set. You can keep all the clausers and post a pic of them. Sounds like Something is Keeping David thats more important then a carp swap. Dont get me wrong Ill wait as long as everyone else.

deffinately a cadis I would say they are alot different