FlyBum
01-08-2011, 12:37 AM
Last twos days a lodge owner and a couple guides from the Trinity River came to the CFFU meeting. I plan to make a trip up there, but in the mean time I'd think I'd like to buy a Switch Rod. There's a guy in the club that told me he could teach me Spey Casting and I may also talk to Jeff Putnam about lessons.
I want to go up there for both the steelhead and sea run browns. However, unless I'm being to optimistic whichever rod I buy I also like to use surf fishing. I don't necessarily mean Stripers in the surf, but maybe surf perch and the like. I'd also like to use it for steelhead in the American.
I saw a video with Jeff Putnam surf fishing I believe he said he was using an 11' switch rod. So for what I'm thinking about what would likely be the best 6wt or 7wt or? And which rods should I look at in the $450 or less range.
Also just for curiosity sake in another of Jeff's online videos he was talking to someone who was showing a rod that had a lower section that could be unscrewed and then pulled down and it went from being a fighting butt to the lower handle for 2 handed casting changing it from a single single hander with a fighting butt into a two handed switch rod does anyone know what that rod was.
Tom
I want to go up there for both the steelhead and sea run browns. However, unless I'm being to optimistic whichever rod I buy I also like to use surf fishing. I don't necessarily mean Stripers in the surf, but maybe surf perch and the like. I'd also like to use it for steelhead in the American.
I saw a video with Jeff Putnam surf fishing I believe he said he was using an 11' switch rod. So for what I'm thinking about what would likely be the best 6wt or 7wt or? And which rods should I look at in the $450 or less range.
Also just for curiosity sake in another of Jeff's online videos he was talking to someone who was showing a rod that had a lower section that could be unscrewed and then pulled down and it went from being a fighting butt to the lower handle for 2 handed casting changing it from a single single hander with a fighting butt into a two handed switch rod does anyone know what that rod was.
Tom