jimbobborg
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I haven't been back since 2006, the bamboo rods are collecting dust.
Another cause of wind knots is too big a fly for the diameter of tippet used. A size 12 Royal Coachman will spin like a helicopter on an 8x tippet.
Fly Fishing rod and reel Question?
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I haven't been back since 2006, the bamboo rods are collecting dust.
Another cause of wind knots is too big a fly for the diameter of tippet used. A size 12 Royal Coachman will spin like a helicopter on an 8x tippet.
Devonian
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Lamson Konic reels are on sale at cabelas today for $75
- Jul 29, 2014
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Try a Dunkin loop and you'll find you won't need such fine tippet on such a big fly. Leave the loop slightly open.
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,176
''that size 12 Royal Coachman has a very unnatural drift'' said the trout. (just ball busting, Jimbo)
jimbobborg
Oddball caliber fan
''that size 12 Royal Coachman has a very unnatural drift'' said the trout. (just ball busting, Jimbo)
That was an indicator fly
Had a size 22 Copper John 2' behind it.
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,176
That was an indicator fly
Nice. I usually use indicators unless I'm fishing an emerger behind a dry.
I used to throw big cut winged Green Drakes with extended moose haired bodies. Man, those things would twist the sh!t out of a tippet!
jimbobborg
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Heavier tippet to the big fly helps, especially when it's dragging a smaller fly. I found my Bread Fly worked great at Boiling Springs when the kids were tossing pieces of bread into the water. My biggest trout on a fly was caught on that
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,176
We used to tie a cased caddis pupa that looked a lot like Purina fish chow and the fresh stickies ate them up on Big Hunting. 
