Anyone out there have a good taper for a 9 1/2 to 10 foot, WF6F line? I'm looking at making a switch rod that I can conventionally cast or spey cast
streamers. Thanks.
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There is a "taper exchange" section on the board you might get more mileage there.
I seem to remember that Milward's book has some longer tapers, I would want a shortened spey taper not a single-handed taper lengthened but that's my taste, I just like spey casts with softer tapers. You are probably going to want to hollow that rod and maybe a 3-pc will make a lot of sense (otherwise your strips will have to be really long). Even hollowbuilt I think you are probably looking at a 6 to7 oz rod (guessing) but anyway it will be heavy, overheads are going to wear our your shoulder. An interesting concept though one of these days I'll have to give a longer taper like that a go. I have a 13'4" 5/6 graphite loomis 2-hander, I've caught everything from 14" trout to 11 pound steelhead on it, it's one application where I think graphite has a big edge over bamboo, but I'd love to be proven wrong. You might want to check into the Rio Outbound line I think it might work really well for what you are intending to do, I use a modified windcutter spey but that's with a much longer rod so you will need a shorter head. Good luck.
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Posts: 2239 08/16/2009 08:07 Bamboo preacher |
I'm not trying to be funny, but have you considered graphite? Seems to me that the lighter and stiffer graphite materials work quite well for long, light
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canerodscom wrote:Hi Harry, I do have several graphite spey rods. The one I'm looking to build will only be 9 1/2 to 10 feet long for trout in my local Catskill rivers, so it need not be a heavy clunker. I was thinking of hollowing the butt section under the grip and reel seat. |
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