Dorset Shakari
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Plus there's always the chance of hooking a sheep on the back cast. Those woolly brutes will strip your line in a few seconds.
Fly reel/line help
- Thread starter Dave RG
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Wildlife can also play havoc.
I once caught a bat when I was night fishing for sea trout/sewin on the Teifi. I've also hooked a duck on a stillwater in Oxfordshire.
In both cases I was grateful for having a decent length of backing on the reel.......
Scandially
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I too have hooked many bats, a seagull and a merganser nearly all of which were catch & released.
This thread has a lot to answer for: Just been into the loft to recover my 3-piece split cane pike rod and the fooking mice have converted it into a 4-peice!
Gutted!
K
Gutted!K
Foxyboy43
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Bloody hell - what a disaster! Rotten luck K - hope you get all the little rascals soon.
TaBloody hell - what a disaster! Rotten luck K - hope you get all the little rascals soon.
Just working out minimum permitted calibre and if to go all copper. May need to deploy thermal too!
K
Foxyboy43
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Bucket of water and a coke tin with a round stick through it and with some peanut butter smeared on the tin - a long lingering death ensues…..
Just a thought - if it is (was) a good quality rod your household insurance may cover it - I once beheaded a Hardy Palakona with the tailgate and they paid £500 for replacement. Check it out!
Good luck.
Scandially
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Nice
Were I not some 600 miles from you I’d be happy to make a contribution to a charity of your choice.
K
Were I not some 600 miles from you I’d be happy to make a contribution to a charity of your choice.
K
Scandially
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If the OP can't use it or pick it up I will sell it, can be bought for £100. These are £100-£150 on EBay etc. 
caorach
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I like this idea.
I will confess to having gone through the stage of being a tackle-tart, believing that the latest or most expensive rod, reel, gizmo or gadget would improve the odds of me catching fish. I eventually emerged - wiser but poorer - on the other side.
Despite still owning some lovely rods, my salmon rod of choice is a 15’ Orvis that cost me £50 and my favourite trout rod is a pre-production prototype that cost less than half that, both bought secondhand from eBay. The reels were similarly priced and sourced.
Together they’ve accounted for a good few fish, and I’ve never found them wanting.
That fish neither know, nor care, what tackle is being used at the other end of the fly line should be written in bold at the top of every fishing magazine and website.
I sort of started another thread with ideas for beginners to fly fishing wanting value for money.
I have some Sage rods and they are lovely, but on a windy day in the Hebrides then my Leeda Volares or Shakespeare Agility performs better as I'm going fishing and not casting. I think there is a difference between fishing and casting and there seem to be some who miss the distinction, sure being able to throw a long line can be an advantage but in my experience being able to throw any line when there's a 70mph wind onto your right shoulder, and water is running down your legs and filling up your boots, and the wind keeps tipping you off the rock you are standing on is what you really need from a rod.
I've got to confess that on advice from some folks I know I bought an Danielsson reel at about £170ish and that was a shock to me as I am still certain that fly reels cost £40 max. I've been pleased with the Danielsson and am even more shocked to find that it is now considered a cheap reel these days! As with stalking I think people would be better spending the cash on going fishing than on buying gadgets and talking about fishing.
A very kind offer, PM sent.If the OP can't use it or pick it up I will sell it, can be bought for £100. These are £100-£150 on EBay etc.
Scandially
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Try and get someone to pick up and get it to you?
New bearings and 4lb line installed and ready to trott!
Just gotta dig some juicy worms.
K
Just gotta dig some juicy worms.K
dartmoordog
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Seen it many times when using my Sage XP, 10 #7……..Double hauling that long cast with a Snowbee WF line..
I have one of those , good seatrout rod and will put a shooting head out a long way on the reservoirsSeen it many times when using my Sage XP, 10 #7……..Double hauling that long cast with a Snowbee WF line..
dartmoordog
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I think it is the best fly fishing Rod ever built tbh, certainly the best I have ever owned. I recently reduced my fly Rod collection from 16 to 6, the XP will be going nowhere, just so versatile. What I have caught with mine:
Salmon
Sea Trout
Brown Trout
Rainbow Trout
Blue Trout
Carp
Bone Fish
Trigger Fish
Jacks
To get:
Bass
Mullet
My own inadequacy failed with the two above.
Bass are just right place , right time . They hammer flies andcpoppers . Mullet ? It's when the maggots are washed out to sea from the weed line , just imitate a maggot or caster , rest of the time they tend to get pre occupied with impossible to imitate vegetation
Will it hold a MerganserIf the OP can't use it or pick it up I will sell it, can be bought for £100. These are £100-£150 on EBay etc.
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