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Orvis has these rods on sale now and I was wondering if anybody had any experience with them. I was thinking of picking up a salt 6 for bay and backwater specks and reds and a 8wt for my wade fishing.

That is true most of the time, but down here the specks like big poppers and 1/0-2/0 clousers! Now a six weight is a fine speck rod, but is in no way able to handle those flies at the distance that is ...

i use anywhere between size 4 and 1/0 for my 8wt

most of the loomis freshwater rods have singles.

You can still get loomis imx, gl4, and glx blanks on sale at the g. loomis superstore. I about to buy a glx blank before they run out.

I heard the battenkill la is getting updated this year. Has anyone else heard anything about this?

I have a st. croix imperial (new one) 8wt that I absolutely love. light weight, fast action, beautiful burgundy blanks, and best of all under $200. I have cast the new version of the elite and for und ...

I've had great success down here in MS with a red over yellow deep minnow with either red are pearl krystal flash. The local fly fishermen call it the fire fly. Simple yet effective.

What time of the year are you going on your trip and where? Gulf coast, east coast? Down here in Mississippi I have used a warm water bass bug line for marsh reds, but i like rio's bonefish line durin ...

The new imperial rods are a blend of scII and scIV graphite. I cast one the other day and loved it. I just wanted to know if anyone has done any field testing before i buy.

Has anybody used one of these rods yet? Seems like they might be a good rod for the money. I am thinking about picking one up as a backup.

Fished the rising tide. This might sound crazy but I believe one of the main reasons the fish were so tight lipped was the weather. The water was glass clear and there was no wind. every fish 100ft fr ...

Well, good news and bad news about my trip. The good new is that I saw over 100 fish with about 14-15 of them in the 30lbs range. I got about 25 good shots at the smaller fish and 2 good shots at the ...

I'm a little late, but i'll share my 2 cents.

I do believe there is a difference in the way certain rods form different companies feel and cast. The low ends rods in my opinion form most companies ...

I've read alot about stripers on the fly, I really got the hots to head that way and get me one of those bad boys. We have hybrid stripers in lake ponchatrain, LA but the few local that know where and ...

No snook around here, heard of people catching tarpon, but i'm not sure if there has ever been one caught on fly in our waters. Your right, MS doesnt get a whole lot of credit for the great fishery we ...

Just wanted to say hey. i'm new to the forum, but have been a visitor here for quite a while. I'm from the mississippi gulf coast and have been fly fishing in the salt for about a year now. If any of ...