busbus
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I have been using my Tenkara rod during lunch and have been having a lot of fun catching the bluegill that are in there--some are surprisingly sizable. The rod is really quite slow and I was a little afraid that I would have a hard time with it but I think I caught on pretty quickly.
I did find the cast is a bit different than with a fly rod as you need to sort of cast downward. Once I figured that out, it has been a blast.
It has been windy around here lately and I am still able to cast okay but it is a lot harder. And the leader has to be on the water; otherwise, the fly is, well, flying. Can't catch too many fish with the fly a foot off the water!
I went out this evening for a little while and decided to use my Orvis Clearwater for the first time this year. The night started out okay but I knew a storm was going to be coming in before I left. I started off using a little foam fly I like on that water. After a couple miscasts, I convinced myself that this wasn't the Tenkara rod and changed my cast.
*Boom!* I don't know if it was because I have been using the slow rod for the past couple weeks but I was finally casting like I knew what I was doing.
Was it because I have been using a slow rod and then went to the faster rod?
Later, I decided to change to a wooly bugger before the wind picked up and I would have to leave. It does get really windy at this particular lake, so I knew time was running out.
I found that I still have terrible trouble with flies that are the least bit weighted. I have a horrible time trying to roll cast mostly. The fly never really makes it out of the water. It sort of comes half-way or more up and then everything just falls into the water. I have to perform another roll cast and it works pretty good to good maybe 60% of the time. The other 40% of the time, it is a bungled ball of fly line, leader, and tippet. Once everything is all on top of the water, I can get it to work.
But, no matter what, it makes a lot of noise when it hits the water. The fly line smacks the water ans then the fly makes a huge "plop" afterwards. Noise and turbulence all over the place. I can't seem to do it right hardly ever.
Later in the evening, there was a little wind but not at first. It was dead calm and I still could not do it. The bugger was small. It was on a "thinner" #10 streamer hook and I had four or five wraps of medium lead wrapped on it. Nothing a 5-wt cannot handle.
What am I doing wrong??
ray
I did find the cast is a bit different than with a fly rod as you need to sort of cast downward. Once I figured that out, it has been a blast.
It has been windy around here lately and I am still able to cast okay but it is a lot harder. And the leader has to be on the water; otherwise, the fly is, well, flying. Can't catch too many fish with the fly a foot off the water!
I went out this evening for a little while and decided to use my Orvis Clearwater for the first time this year. The night started out okay but I knew a storm was going to be coming in before I left. I started off using a little foam fly I like on that water. After a couple miscasts, I convinced myself that this wasn't the Tenkara rod and changed my cast.
*Boom!* I don't know if it was because I have been using the slow rod for the past couple weeks but I was finally casting like I knew what I was doing.
Was it because I have been using a slow rod and then went to the faster rod?
Later, I decided to change to a wooly bugger before the wind picked up and I would have to leave. It does get really windy at this particular lake, so I knew time was running out.
I found that I still have terrible trouble with flies that are the least bit weighted. I have a horrible time trying to roll cast mostly. The fly never really makes it out of the water. It sort of comes half-way or more up and then everything just falls into the water. I have to perform another roll cast and it works pretty good to good maybe 60% of the time. The other 40% of the time, it is a bungled ball of fly line, leader, and tippet. Once everything is all on top of the water, I can get it to work.
But, no matter what, it makes a lot of noise when it hits the water. The fly line smacks the water ans then the fly makes a huge "plop" afterwards. Noise and turbulence all over the place. I can't seem to do it right hardly ever.
Later in the evening, there was a little wind but not at first. It was dead calm and I still could not do it. The bugger was small. It was on a "thinner" #10 streamer hook and I had four or five wraps of medium lead wrapped on it. Nothing a 5-wt cannot handle.
What am I doing wrong??
ray