10 Weight 9 Foot Single Handed Fly Rod

[Robbie]

I will be contacting you shortly about a 10 wt line 

[Wildfisher]

I will be contacting you shortly about a 10 wt line  

Right now I only have Highland White floaters  in the new 9 and 10 weights, Heron Grey will follow  in a week or two as will the new "secret"   intermediate. The blue  intermediate was just a ruse to wind up the competition. I know how overly serious  at least one of them takes himself. . :lol:

[Wildfisher]

So I ask again - why 9/10 weights?

Size and weight of fly. No woolly bugger I have fished with is anything like as heavy as a wet 6"  pike fly.

Oh aye, and POWER   :lol:

[Malcolm]

PA,

Wht not use 9/10?

I think it's a bit light and prefer a 12 weight S/H but I switched to double handed and now use the S/H equivalent of about AFTM15. It makes casting any size of fly so easy. I agree the big flies aren't always necessary but we have a choice if we use a heavy rod. Casting a big lure on a light rod is purgatory.

I actually thought you were an evangelist for proper line weights as in a previous post I said that 8 weight was perfect for streamer fishing on rivers and I think you were the only one who agreed with me.

[Wildfisher]

Bob,

What big Malky said.....................   :lol:

[Robbie]

The only time I have fished for Pike I used a seven weight rod, it was fine when using small poppers but with a water logged lure it was a nightmare to cast.  Using a more specialised line I could probably have made life a lot easier, but they are not cheap.  

As Malcolm says why not use 9/10?  Just because you can catch and land pike with a 7wt rod it does not mean it is the best tool for the job.

[Robbie]

Col I have a quick search on-line, those lines seem to come in either 9 or 10wt.  In my earlier post I was meaning specialist 7wt lines,  I have not really looked into alternative and there are probably cheaper options available.  However I was  the Orvis shop in Banchory recently and was advised the their 7wt wonderline, think it may have been the power taper line but not sure, would cast 5-6in pike flies no problem.  These lines cost about £42.00.

[Traditionalist]

http://www.mullarkeys.co.uk/fishing/Lines/Mill-End-and-Budget-Fly-Lines/

I use these to make up heads, but you can use them as they are.  Never had a bad one yet and I and many others have been using them for years.

TL
MC

[Inchlaggan]

Just to help amplify my point.  How many forum members have had a 20+ pike on the flee?  I've been close.

Well that's me, but I cannot prove it, estimated at 27lb, put it on the bank without a net, unhooked it, turned around for the camera and it was back in the water and gone, cry me a liar if you like.
Strangely, a gentleman I consider to be  the UK's most astute pike fisherman arrives here this weekend.
I'll pick his brains (yet again). Any questions from the forum I will happily put to him.
He usually picks up a 30lb+ pike on deadbait, 20lb spinning, and an 18lb+ on the fly in three days of fishing.

[Traditionalist]

I've had quite a few over the years, most of them on a 9´6"  #7  weight in combination with a #12 34 foot intermediate shooting head. If you want bigger fish then you have to use bigger "flies" because the larger fish only tend to target prey in certain size ranges. If you are outside that range you wont get many bigger fish. You need the heavy line to carry big flies, but you don't need a heavy rod.

What people use is always down to personal preference and what they happen to believe.

TL
MC