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About Aftma or #
Aftma or # tells you the weight class of your fly rod. A rod with 5-6# on the blank tells you which lines the rod needs. 5 means Double Taper 5 and 6 means Weight Forward 6. Fly rod and reel balance you have a filled reel on your fly rod. Those 2 has to be in balance. Place your finger just behind the reel at the beginning of the handgrip. The rod has to balance horizontal. Wading Your fly rod is NOT a wading stick! If you use your rod as a wading stick you have a big chance loosing that trophy fish. Your leader or fly line will be damaged. You have spotted your trophy fish but you can not reach it. "Can I wade through here?" 4 to 5 times you push the top of your rod against the bottom to see how deep it is. Yes! I see the fish! Yes! hookup! Snap! Oooh No! Splash! You are wet! No trophy fish, no trophy picture, and your great fly gone. Hello, how was your fishing trip? Is it raining? Did you catch that trophy fish you were talking about. Wading Boots Flats wading boots to protect your feet against sharp coral and spines. On normal wading boots you should have a felt sole. Stitched felt soles are better. For extra grip you can have metal studs and felt soles. Always remember when wearing with Stockingfoot Waders that you buy your shoes with your waders on to fit the shoes. Think about a gravel and/or mud guard. Wading and the length of your fly rod You are standing in the water. The nature around you is now sky high. River banks now looks like skyscrapers. A 9 or even 10 foot fly rod would be handy. Casting with a shorter rod is hard because you have to hold your rod to high for preventing the fly line hitting the water behind you. |
different styles of Fly FishingLightweight dry flies Delicate approach, rising fish to the surface are easily disturbed. The fly lines are "double taper" (DT) and "weight forward" (WF) lines. As for the WF we say WFF "Weight Forward Floating" when we fish with dry flies. Nymphing "Weight forward" (WF and WFF) lines, Intermediate "hovering" fly lines (transparent clear line), sinking fly lines (slow,fast,very fast sinking fly lines, etc). Depending on how deep you have to fish. Nymphing in shalow water can be done with a floating fly line. Put some floating liquid on your leader as if your going to fly fish with dry flies. only leave the last 10 or 20 cm as it is. Now your nymph dives only 10 or 20 cm under the surface of the water. Streamer fly fishing The minimum for streamer fly fishing is for me a #7 fly rod for small (Clouser) minnows and medium sized pike streamers. For big zonker streamers you need #8 or even #9. I have spoken flyfishers who has landed a big pike on an aftma 4 rod. "I was fighting with the fish for almost 30 minutes". How long do you think the fish needs to recover? "Taking pictures was easy". Yeah, sure! |
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