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To answer a couple of you questions, Gregg, I'm fishing a 12' Iwana made by Tenkara USA. It casts nicely and feels great when fighting a fish. I've landed fish up to 18" on it, but a 10" fish still puts a nice bend in the rod. For line I'm using the 2.5 level line, usually cut between 12 and 15'. You can roll out proper loops with these lines and easily hold the line off the water after the cast. This definitely becomes harder in windy conditions. Tippet is usually about 4' of 5x mono. I've limited my fly selection to a couple of my favorite dries and two different lightly weighted reverse-hackle flies that I fish sub-surface.
Hope that helps, Gregg.
Best of luck and have fun.
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