Wednesday, March 1, 2017

{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Grandpa's shad flies

My experience with casting them, is that you sometimes have to "rollcast" once or twice to get the line to the surface. But then either a water load or one or two false casts will send the line flying. Part of this is that a 300 gr is overloading the 8wt a bit. 
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 9:36:44 AM UTC-5, namfos wrote:
Thanks for the info, gents. Use to fish lakes with a sink tip, but never a full sinker. I suppose this old dog's got to learn new tricks.

Mark

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:13:33 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:
Yeah, the depth charge is a good example.  The head does sink fast, and the running line much less so which (to me anyway) gives you a 

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